CVE-2025-38576

Updated on 19 Aug 2025

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

powerpc/eeh: Make EEH driver device hotplug safe

Multiple race conditions existed between the PCIe hotplug driver and the EEH driver, leading to a variety of kernel oopses of the same general nature:

A second class of oops is also seen when the underlying bus disappears during device recovery.

Refactor the EEH module to be PCI rescan and remove safe. Also clean up a few minor formatting / readability issues.

Details

Affected packages:
kernel @ 4.18.0 (+9 more)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

powerpc/eeh: Make EEH driver device hotplug safe

Multiple race conditions existed between the PCIe hotplug driver and the EEH driver, leading to a variety of kernel oopses of the same general nature:

A second class of oops is also seen when the underlying bus disappears during device recovery.

Refactor the EEH module to be PCI rescan and remove safe. Also clean up a few minor formatting / readability issues.

Fixes