vulnerability

SUSE: CVE-2025-23134: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jun 13, 2025
Added
Dec 5, 2025
Modified
Dec 5, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ALSA: timer: Don't take register_mutex with copy_from/to_user()

The infamous mmap_lock taken in copy_from/to_user() can be often
problematic when it's called inside another mutex, as they might lead
to deadlocks.

In the case of ALSA timer code, the bad pattern is with
guard(mutex)(®ister_mutex) that covers copy_from/to_user() -- which
was mistakenly introduced at converting to guard(), and it had been
carefully worked around in the past.

This patch fixes those pieces simply by moving copy_from/to_user() out
of the register mutex lock again.

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