In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: ethernet: mtk-star-emac: fix spinlock recursion issues on rx/tx poll
Use spin_lock_irqsave and spin_unlock_irqrestore instead of spin_lock
and spin_unlock in mtk_star_emac driver to avoid spinlock recursion
occurrence that can happen when enabling the DMA interrupts again in
rx/tx poll.
BUG: spinlock recursion on CPU#0, swapper/0/0
lock: 0xffff00000db9cf20, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: swapper/0/0,
.owner_cpu: 0
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted
6.15.0-rc2-next-20250417-00001-gf6a27738686c-dirty #28 PREEMPT
Hardware name: MediaTek MT8365 Open Platform EVK (DT)
Call trace:
show_stack+0x18/0x24 (C)
dump_stack_lvl+0x60/0x80
dump_stack+0x18/0x24
spin_dump+0x78/0x88
do_raw_spin_lock+0x11c/0x120
_raw_spin_lock+0x20/0x2c
mtk_star_handle_irq+0xc0/0x22c [mtk_star_emac]
__handle_irq_event_percpu+0x48/0x140
handle_irq_event+0x4c/0xb0
handle_fasteoi_irq+0xa0/0x1bc
handle_irq_desc+0x34/0x58
generic_handle_domain_irq+0x1c/0x28
gic_handle_irq+0x4c/0x120
do_interrupt_handler+0x50/0x84
el1_interrupt+0x34/0x68
el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x24
el1h_64_irq+0x6c/0x70
regmap_mmio_read32le+0xc/0x20 (P)
_regmap_bus_reg_read+0x6c/0xac
_regmap_read+0x60/0xdc
regmap_read+0x4c/0x80
mtk_star_rx_poll+0x2f4/0x39c [mtk_star_emac]
__napi_poll+0x38/0x188
net_rx_action+0x164/0x2c0
handle_softirqs+0x100/0x244
__do_softirq+0x14/0x20
____do_softirq+0x10/0x20
call_on_irq_stack+0x24/0x64
do_softirq_own_stack+0x1c/0x40
__irq_exit_rcu+0xd4/0x10c
irq_exit_rcu+0x10/0x1c
el1_interrupt+0x38/0x68
el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x24
el1h_64_irq+0x6c/0x70
cpuidle_enter_state+0xac/0x320 (P)
cpuidle_enter+0x38/0x50
do_idle+0x1e4/0x260
cpu_startup_entry+0x34/0x3c
rest_init+0xdc/0xe0
console_on_rootfs+0x0/0x6c
__primary_switched+0x88/0x90
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (5.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 5.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 0.6% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-24). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
Exploitation none (no CISA value, KEV listing or exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). Where an input reads “CISA's BOD 26-04 default”, no one has published it for this CVE, and CISA's implementation guidance says: “If “Automatable” and “Technical Impact” information items about a CVE ID are not available and the CVE ID is not in the KEV Catalog, CISA will treat its values as “no” and “total,” respectively, until CISA or a third party provides metadata about the CVE ID. CISA will always provide the Vulnrichment data for a CVE ID listed in the KEV Catalog.” Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it