Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-38276

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/dax: Fix don't skip locked entries when scanning entries Commit 6be3e21d25ca fs/dax: don'...

CVE-2025-38276

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/dax: Fix "don't skip locked entries when scanning entries" Commit 6be3e21d25ca "fs/dax: don't skip locked entries when scanning entries" introduced a new function, waitentryunlockedexclusive, which waits for the current entry ...

CVE-2025-38276

In CVE-2025-38276, the issue comes from fs/dax after the commit 6be3e21d25ca, which introduced wait_entry_unlocked_exclusive() that waits for an entry to unlock without advancing the XArray iterator state. Dropping the XArray lock requires xas_pause(), which advances the iterator state to the nex...

CVE-2025-38276 fs/dax: Fix "don't skip locked entries when scanning entries"

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/dax: Fix "don't skip locked entries when scanning entries" Commit 6be3e21d25ca "fs/dax: don't skip locked entries when scanning entries" introduced a new function, waitentryunlockedexclusive, which waits for the current entry ...