{"id":"CVE-2025-38058","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-38058","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T07:05:30.192Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: __legitimize_mnt(): check for MNT_SYNC_UMOUNT should be under mount_lock ... or we risk stealing final mntput from sync umount - raising mnt_count after umount(2) has verified that…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\n__legitimize_mnt(): check for MNT_SYNC_UMOUNT should be under mount_lock\n\n... or we risk stealing final mntput from sync umount - raising mnt_count\nafter umount(2) has verified that victim is not busy, but before it\nhas set MNT_SYNC_UMOUNT; in that case __legitimize_mnt() doesn't see\nthat it's safe to quietly undo mnt_count increment and leaves dropping\nthe reference to caller, where it'll be a full-blown mntput().\n\nCheck under mount_lock is needed; leaving the current one done before\ntaking that makes no sense - it's nowhere near common enough to bother\nwith.","published":"2025-06-18T10:15:39.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-15T22:18:25.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-667"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel","debian/debian linux"],"epss":{"score":0.00169,"percentile":0.06235,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.17%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/250cf3693060a5f803c5f1ddc082bb06b16112a9","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/628fb00195ce21a90cf9e4e3d105cd9e58f77b40","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8cafd7266fa02e0863bacbf872fe635c0b9725eb","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9b0915e72b3cf52474dcee0b24a2f99d93e604a3","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b55996939c71a3e1a38f3cdc6a8859797efc9083","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b89eb56a378b7b2c1176787fc228d0a57172bdd5","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d8ece4ced3b051e656c77180df2e69e19e24edc1","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f6d45fd92f62845cbd1eb5128fd8f0ed7d0c5a42","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-082556.html","source":"0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38058","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}