# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-39900"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-01T07:42:47.785Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:38:34.749Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39900"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39900.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39900"
title: "net_sched: gen_estimator: fix est_timer() vs CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet_sched: gen_estimator: fix est_timer() vs CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y\n\nsyzbot reported a WARNING in est_timer() [1]\n\nProblem here is that with CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y, timer callbacks\ncan be preempted.\n\nAdopt preempt_disable_nested()/preempt_enable_nested() to fix this.\n\n[1]\n WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 16 at ./include/linux/seqlock.h:221 __seqprop_assert include/linux/seqlock.h:221 [inline]\n WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 16 at ./include/linux/seqlock.h:221 est_timer+0x6dc/0x9f0 net/core/gen_estimator.c:93\nModules linked in:\nCPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 16 Comm: ktimers/0 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)}\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/12/2025\n RIP: 0010:__seqprop_assert include/linux/seqlock.h:221 [inline]\n RIP: 0010:est_timer+0x6dc/0x9f0 net/core/gen_estimator.c:93\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n  call_timer_fn+0x17e/0x5f0 kernel/time/timer.c:1747\n  expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1798 [inline]\n  __run_timers kernel/time/timer.c:2372 [inline]\n  __run_timer_base+0x648/0x970 kernel/time/timer.c:2384\n  run_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:2393 [inline]\n  run_timer_softirq+0xb7/0x180 kernel/time/timer.c:2403\n  handle_softirqs+0x22c/0x710 kernel/softirq.c:579\n  __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:613 [inline]\n  run_ktimerd+0xcf/0x190 kernel/softirq.c:1043\n  smpboot_thread_fn+0x53f/0xa60 kernel/smpboot.c:160\n  kthread+0x70e/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463\n  ret_from_fork+0x3fc/0x770 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148\n  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245\n \u003c/TASK\u003e"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"d2d6422f8bd17c6bb205133e290625a564194496","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a22ec2ee824be30803068a52f78f7ffe3bc879fb"},{"version":"d2d6422f8bd17c6bb205133e290625a564194496","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e79923824c48b930609680be04cb29253fc4a17d"},{"version":"d2d6422f8bd17c6bb205133e290625a564194496","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9f74c0ea9b26d1505d55b61e36b1623dd347e1d1"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12"},{"version":"6.12.46","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.16.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.16.*"},{"version":"6.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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