CVE-2025-38028

The vulnerability CVE-2025-38028 affects the Linux kernel’s NFS/localio path (nfs_local_open_fh) due to a race condition involved when dropping the cl_uuid.lock. After the lock is released, another CPU could reclaim the just-added nfsd_file, risking use-after-free scenarios. The described fix is ...

CVE-2025-38028: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFS/localio: Fix a race in nfslocalopenfh Once the clp-cluuid.lock has been dropped, another CPU could come in and free the struct nfsdfile that was just added. To prevent that from happening, take the RCU read lock before droppi...