High severity · published Sep 4, 2025
CVE-2025-38708
drbd: add missing kref_get in handle_write_conflicts
7.8
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 32% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KE
Kernel · Linux
4.5 before 5.4.297; 5.5 before 5.10.241; 5.11 before 5.15.190; 5.16 before 6.1.149; 6.2 before 6.6.103; 6.7 before 6.12.43; +2 more · source: NVD
LI
Linux · Linux
668700b40a7c8727bbd2b3fd4fd22e0ce3f1aeb6 before 0336bfe9c237476bd7c45605a36ca79c2bca62e5; 668700b40a7c8727bbd2b3fd4fd22e0ce3f1aeb6 before 810cd546a29bfac90ed1328ea01d693d4bd11cb1; 668700b40a7c8727bbd2b3fd4fd22e0ce3f1aeb6 before 84ef8dd3238330d1795745ece83b19f0295751bf; 668700b40a7c8727bbd2b3fd4fd22e0ce3f1aeb6 before 57418de35420cedab035aa1da8a26c0499b7f575; 668700b40a7c8727bbd2b3fd4fd22e0ce3f1aeb6 before 9f53b2433ad248cd3342cc345f56f5c7904bd8c4; 668700b40a7c8727bbd2b3fd4fd22e0ce3f1aeb6 before 7d483ad300fc0a06f69b019dda8f74970714baf8; +4 more · source: vendor
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
11.0 · source: NVD
SC
SIMATIC CN 4100 · Siemens
before V5.0 · source: CISA
SS
SS