CVE-2025-38085
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-362
Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
Publication date:
28/06/2025
Last modified:
18/12/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
mm/hugetlb: fix huge_pmd_unshare() vs GUP-fast race<br />
<br />
huge_pmd_unshare() drops a reference on a page table that may have<br />
previously been shared across processes, potentially turning it into a<br />
normal page table used in another process in which unrelated VMAs can<br />
afterwards be installed.<br />
<br />
If this happens in the middle of a concurrent gup_fast(), gup_fast() could<br />
end up walking the page tables of another process. While I don&#39;t see any<br />
way in which that immediately leads to kernel memory corruption, it is<br />
really weird and unexpected.<br />
<br />
Fix it with an explicit broadcast IPI through tlb_remove_table_sync_one(),<br />
just like we do in khugepaged when removing page tables for a THP<br />
collapse.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
4.70
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
Vulnerable products and versions
| CPE | From | Up to |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 2.6.20 (including) | 5.10.239 (excluding) |
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 5.11 (including) | 5.15.186 (excluding) |
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 5.16 (including) | 6.1.142 (excluding) |
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 6.2 (including) | 6.6.95 (excluding) |
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 6.7 (including) | 6.12.35 (excluding) |
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 6.13 (including) | 6.15.4 (excluding) |
| cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/034a52b5ef57c9c8225d94e9067f3390bb33922f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1013af4f585fccc4d3e5c5824d174de2257f7d6d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/952596b08c74e8fe9e2883d1dc8a8f54a37384ec
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3d864c901a300c295692d129159fc3001a56185
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6bfeb97941a9187833b526bc6cc4ff5706d0ce9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7754d3aa7bf9f62218d096c0c8f6c13698fac8b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe684290418ef9ef76630072086ee530b92f02b8
- https://project-zero.issues.chromium.org/issues/420715744
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html



