atm/fore200e: Fix possible data race in fore200e_open()
Key facts
- Attack vector
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Attack complexity
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- Impact type
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- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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- Fix status
- Fixed
No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: atm/fore200e: Fix possible data race in fore200e_open() Protect access to fore200e->available_cell_rate with rate_mtx lock in the error handling path of fore200e_open() to prevent a data race. The field fore200e->available_cell_rate is a shared resource used to track available bandwidth. It is concurrently accessed by fore200e_open(), fore200e_close(), and fore200e_change_qos(). In fore200e_open(), the lock rate_mtx is correctly held when subtracting vcc->qos.txtp.max_pcr from available_cell_rate to reserve bandwidth. However, if the subsequent call to fore200e_activate_vcin() fails, the function restores the reserved bandwidth by adding back to available_cell_rate without holding the lock. This introduces a race condition because available_cell_rate is a global device resource shared across all VCCs. If the error path in fore200e_open() executes concurrently with operations like fore200e_close() or fore200e_change_qos() on other VCCs, a read-modify-write race occurs. Specifically, the error path reads the rate without the lock. If another CPU acquires the lock and modifies the rate (e.g., releasing bandwidth in fore200e_close()) between this read and the subsequent write, the error path will overwrite the concurrent update with a stale value. This results in incorrect bandwidth accounting.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 5.10.247, 5.15.197, 6.1.159, 6.6.119, 6.12.61, 6.17.11, 6.18
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Not affected: 5 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-68339
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-p5pr-v4m5-r2vj
References
Other 7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b60f42a639999c37da7f1fbfa1ad29cf4cbdd2d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bd1415efbab507b9b995918105eef953013449dd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed34c70d88e2b8b9bc6c3ede88751186d6c6d5d1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9917ba597cf95f307778e495f71ff25a5064d167
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/667ac868823224374f819500adc5baa2889c7bc5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6610361458e7eb6502dd3182f586f91fcc218039
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/82fca3d8a4a34667f01ec2351a607135249c9cff
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Sources
- CVE-2025-68339 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-68339 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-p5pr-v4m5-r2vj · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2025-68339 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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