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&amp;#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.

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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*