CVE-2025-38356

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 36/100
Published: 2025-07-25 Modified: 2026-11-05 First seen: 2026-11-05 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local
AC: Low
PR: Low
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: None
I: None
A: High

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe/guc: Explicitly exit CT safe mode on unwind During driver probe we might be briefly using CT safe mode, which is based on a delayed work, but usually we are able to stop this once we have IRQ fully operational. However, if we abort the probe quite early then during unwind we might try to destroy the workqueue while there is still a pending delayed work that attempts to restart itself which triggers a WARN. This was recently observed during unsuccessful VF initialization: [ ] xe 0000:00:02.1: probe with driver xe failed with error -62 [ ] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ ] workqueue: cannot queue safe_mode_worker_func [xe] on wq xe-g2h-wq [ ] WARNING: CPU: 9 PID: 0 at kernel/workqueue.c:2257 __queue_work+0x287/0x710 [ ] RIP: 0010:__queue_work+0x287/0x710 [ ] Call Trace: [ ] delayed_work_timer_fn+0x19/0x30 [ ] call_timer_fn+0xa1/0x2a0 Exit the CT safe mode on unwind to avoid that warning. (cherry picked from commit 2ddbb73ec20b98e70a5200cb85deade22ccea2ec)

Affected Software (8)

VendorProductVersion
Linux Linux 09b286950f2911615694f4a1ff491efe9ed5eeba < 6d0b588614c43d6334b2d7a70a99f31f7b14ecc0
Linux Linux 09b286950f2911615694f4a1ff491efe9ed5eeba < f161e905b08ae8a513c5a36a10e3163e9920cfe6
Linux Linux 09b286950f2911615694f4a1ff491efe9ed5eeba < ad40098da5c3b43114d860a5b5740e7204158534
Linux Linux 6.11
linux linux_kernel 6.11 – 6.12.37
linux linux_kernel 6.16
linux linux_kernel 6.16
linux linux_kernel 6.16

Bug Bounty Relevance

36 / 100
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

5.5 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.19%
Raw Score 0.001870
Percentile 8.3%
Date 2026-11-14

EPSS Trend

2026-11-14
0.00187
2026-11-13
0.00187
2026-11-12
0.00187
2026-11-10
0.00187
2026-11-09
0.00187
2026-11-08
0.00187
2026-11-07
0.00187
2026-11-06
0.00187
2026-11-05
0.00187

Intelligence Sources

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