CVE-2025-38708

drbd: add missing kref_get in handle_write_conflicts

CVE-2025-38708 is fixed in 82 products on 1 platform, first by DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38708, released September 4, 2025. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

High
CVSS
7.8
high
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0040
33rd percentile

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drbd: add missing kref_get in handle_write_conflicts With `two-primaries` enabled, DRBD tries to detect "concurrent" writes and handle write conflicts, so that even if you write to the same sector simultaneously on both nodes, they end up with the identical data once the writes are completed. In handling "superseeded" writes, we forgot a kref_get, resulting in a premature drbd_destroy_device and use after free, and further to kernel crashes with symptoms. Relevance: No one should use DRBD as a random data generator, and apparently all users of "two-primaries" handle concurrent writes correctly on layer up. That is cluster file systems use some distributed lock manager, and live migration in virtualization environments stops writes on one node before starting writes on the other node. Which means that other than for "test cases", this code path is never taken in real life. FYI, in DRBD 9, things are handled differently nowadays. We still detect "write conflicts", but no longer try to be smart about them. We decided to disconnect hard instead: upper layers must not submit concurrent writes. If they do, that's their fault.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
bpftool · amzn 2023 1:6.1.150-174.273.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1186 Sep 10, 2025
bpftool · ol 8 0:5.15.0-314.193.5.3.el9uek ELSA-2025-25757 Nov 10, 2025
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bpftool-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.1.150-174.273.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1186 Sep 10, 2025
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bpftool6.12-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1208 Sep 23, 2025
kernel · amzn 2023 1:6.1.150-174.273.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1186 Sep 10, 2025
kernel-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.1.150-174.273.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1186 Sep 10, 2025
kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 · amzn 2023 1:6.1.150-174.273.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1186 Sep 10, 2025
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 · amzn 2023 1:6.1.150-174.273.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1186 Sep 10, 2025
kernel-devel · amzn 2023 1:6.1.150-174.273.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1186 Sep 10, 2025
kernel-headers · amzn 2023 1:6.1.150-174.273.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1186 Sep 10, 2025
kernel-libbpf · amzn 2023 1:6.1.150-174.273.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1186 Sep 10, 2025
kernel-libbpf-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.1.150-174.273.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1186 Sep 10, 2025
kernel-libbpf-devel · amzn 2023 1:6.1.150-174.273.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1186 Sep 10, 2025
kernel-libbpf-static · amzn 2023 1:6.1.150-174.273.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1186 Sep 10, 2025
kernel-livepatch-6.1.150-174.273 · amzn 2023 1:1.0-0.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1186 Sep 10, 2025
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kernel-modules-extra · amzn 2023 1:6.1.150-174.273.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1186 Sep 10, 2025
kernel-modules-extra-common · amzn 2023 1:6.1.150-174.273.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1186 Sep 10, 2025
kernel-tools · amzn 2023 1:6.1.150-174.273.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1186 Sep 10, 2025
kernel-tools-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.1.150-174.273.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1186 Sep 10, 2025
kernel-tools-devel · amzn 2023 1:6.1.150-174.273.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1186 Sep 10, 2025
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kernel6.12 · amzn 2023 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1208 Sep 23, 2025
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kernel6.12-debuginfo-common-aarch64 · amzn 2023 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1208 Sep 23, 2025
kernel6.12-debuginfo-common-x86_64 · amzn 2023 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1208 Sep 23, 2025
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kernel6.12-libbpf · amzn 2023 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1208 Sep 23, 2025
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kernel6.12-libbpf-static · amzn 2023 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1208 Sep 23, 2025
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kernel6.12-modules-extra-common · amzn 2023 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1208 Sep 23, 2025
kernel6.12-tools · amzn 2023 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1208 Sep 23, 2025
kernel6.12-tools-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1208 Sep 23, 2025
kernel6.12-tools-devel · amzn 2023 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1208 Sep 23, 2025
linux · Debian 12.15 (bookworm) 6.1.153-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38708 Sep 4, 2025
linux · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 6.12.43-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38708 Sep 4, 2025
linux · Debian 14 6.16.3-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38708 Sep 4, 2025
perf · amzn 2023 1:6.1.150-174.273.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1186 Sep 10, 2025
perf-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.1.150-174.273.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1186 Sep 10, 2025
perf6.12 · amzn 2023 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1208 Sep 23, 2025
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python3-perf6.12 · amzn 2023 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1208 Sep 23, 2025
python3-perf6.12-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1208 Sep 23, 2025

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