CVE-2025-37884: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix deadlock between rcu_tasks_trace and event_mutex. Fix the following deadlock: CPU A _free_event() perf_kprobe_destroy() mutex_lock(&event_mutex) perf_trace_event_unreg() synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace() There are several paths where _free_event() grabs event_mutex and calls sync_rcu_tasks_trace. Above is one such case. CPU B bpf_prog_test_run_syscall() rcu_read_lock_trace() bpf_prog_run_pin_on_cpu() bpf_prog_load() bpf_tracing_func_proto() trace_set_clr_event() mutex_lock(&event_mutex) Delegate trace_set_clr_event() to workqueue to avoid such lock dependency.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 11.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: before 6.1.136 (fixed in 6.1.136); from 6.2, before 6.6.89 (fixed in 6.6.89); from 6.7, before 6.12.26 (fixed in 6.12.26); from 6.13, before 6.14.5 (fixed in 6.14.5)

Published 2025-05-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.