{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-38496 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-38496 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 28 Jul 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-38496 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-38496 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 28 Jul 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-38496 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. 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.\n2. 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.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38496/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38496/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-38496","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38496/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-38496","record":{"aliases":["AZL-65925","BELL-CVE-2025-38496","DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38496","GHSA-8h6h-2w9h-vcg2","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-38496","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38496"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A bug in the Linux kernel dm-bufio module causes a kernel panic when scheduling occurs in atomic context, leading to denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndm-bufio: fix sched in atomic context\n\nIf \"try_verify_in_tasklet\" is set for dm-verity, DM_BUFIO_CLIENT_NO_SLEEP\nis enabled for dm-bufio. However, when bufio tries to evict buffers, there\nis a chance to trigger scheduling in spin_lock_bh, the following warning\nis hit:\n\nBUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at drivers/md/dm-bufio.c:2745\nin_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 123, name: kworker/2:2\npreempt_count: 201, expected: 0\nRCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0\n4 locks held by kworker/2:2/123:\n #0: ffff88800a2d1548 ((wq_completion)dm_bufio_cache){....}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0xe46/0x1970\n #1: ffffc90000d97d20 ((work_completion)(\u0026dm_bufio_replacement_work)){....}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x763/0x1970\n #2: ffffffff8555b528 (dm_bufio_clients_lock){....}-{3:3}, at: do_global_cleanup+0x1ce/0x710\n #3: ffff88801d5820b8 (\u0026c-\u003espinlock){....}-{2:2}, at: do_global_cleanup+0x2a5/0x710\nPreemption disabled at:\n[\u003c0000000000000000\u003e] 0x0\nCPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 123 Comm: kworker/2:2 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc3-g90548c634bd0 #305 PREEMPT(voluntary)\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\nWorkqueue: dm_bufio_cache do_global_cleanup\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n dump_stack_lvl+0x53/0x70\n __might_resched+0x360/0x4e0\n do_global_cleanup+0x2f5/0x710\n process_one_work+0x7db/0x1970\n worker_thread+0x518/0xea0\n kthread+0x359/0x690\n ret_from_fork+0xf3/0x1b0\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nThat can be reproduced by:\n\n  veritysetup format --data-block-size=4096 --hash-block-size=4096 /dev/vda /dev/vdb\n  SIZE=$(blockdev --getsz /dev/vda)\n  dmsetup create myverity -r --table \"0 $SIZE verity 1 /dev/vda /dev/vdb 4096 4096 \u003cdata_blocks\u003e 1 sha256 \u003croot_hash\u003e \u003csalt\u003e 1 try_verify_in_tasklet\"\n  mount /dev/dm-0 /mnt -o ro\n  echo 102400 \u003e /sys/module/dm_bufio/parameters/max_cache_size_bytes\n  [read files in /mnt]","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"dm-bufio: fix sched in atomic context","id":"CVE-2025-38496","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":4,"next":{"headline":"usb: gadget: configfs: Fix OOB read on empty string write","id":"CVE-2025-38497"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"HID: core: ensure the allocated report buffer can contain the reserved report ID","id":"CVE-2025-38495"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-07-28","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A bug in the Linux kernel dm-bufio module causes a kernel panic when scheduling occurs in atomic context, leading to denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38496/"}