# CVE-2025-38376: usb: chipidea: udc: disconnect/reconnect from host when do suspend/resume

> A race condition in the Linux kernel USB chipidea driver causes a system hang during suspend/resume if data transfer is active, requiring a kernel patch.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 25 Jul 2025
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** AZL-65696, BELL-CVE-2025-38376, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38376, GHSA-q9hc-qj7m-hpc9, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-38376, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38376

## What is CVE-2025-38376?

CVE-2025-38376 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 25 Jul 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

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

usb: chipidea: udc: disconnect/reconnect from host when do suspend/resume

Shawn and John reported a hang issue during system suspend as below:

 - USB gadget is enabled as Ethernet
 - There is data transfer over USB Ethernet (scp a big file between host
                                             and device)
 - Device is going in/out suspend (echo mem > /sys/power/state)

The root cause is the USB device controller is suspended but the USB bus
is still active which caused the USB host continues to transfer data with
device and the device continues to queue USB requests (in this case, a
delayed TCP ACK packet trigger the issue) after controller is suspended,
however the USB controller clock is already gated off. Then if udc driver
access registers after that point, the system will hang.

The correct way to avoid such issue is to disconnect device from host when
the USB bus is not at suspend state. Then the host will receive disconnect
event and stop data transfer in time. To continue make USB gadget device
work after system resume, this will reconnect device automatically.

To make usb wakeup work if USB bus is already at suspend state, this will
keep connection for it only when USB device controller has enabled wakeup
capability.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-38376?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-38376?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2025-38376 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-38376 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-38376 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-38376 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 25 Jul 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-38376 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38376/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38376/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38376
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38376
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-38376

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38376/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.