CVE-2025-21691
cachestat: fix page cache statistics permission checking
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Public Exploits
0Exploited in Wild
-Decision
Descriptions
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cachestat: fix page cache statistics permission checking When the 'cachestat()' system call was added in commit cf264e1329fb
("cachestat: implement cachestat syscall"), it was meant to be a much
more convenient (and performant) version of mincore() that didn't need
mapping things into the user virtual address space in order to work. But it ended up missing the "check for writability or ownership" fix for
mincore(), done in commit 134fca9063ad ("mm/mincore.c: make mincore()
more conservative"). This just adds equivalent logic to 'cachestat()', modified for the file
context (rather than vma).
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cachestat: fix page cache statistics permission checking When the 'cachestat()' system call was added in commit cf264e1329fb ("cachestat: implement cachestat syscall"), it was meant to be a much more convenient (and performant) version of mincore() that didn't need mapping things into the user virtual address space in order to work. But it ended up missing the "check for writability or ownership" fix for mincore(), done in commit 134fca9063ad ("mm/mincore.c: make mincore() more conservative"). This just adds equivalent logic to 'cachestat()', modified for the file context (rather than vma).
CVSS Scores
SSVC
- Decision:-
Timeline
- 2024-12-29 CVE Reserved
- 2025-02-10 CVE Published
- 2025-02-10 CVE Updated
- 2025-02-11 EPSS Updated
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CWE
CAPEC
References (5)
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf264e1329fb0307e044f7675849f9f38b44c11a | Vuln. Introduced |
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Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
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Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 6.5 < 6.6.75 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 6.5 < 6.6.75" | en |
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Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 6.5 < 6.12.12 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 6.5 < 6.12.12" | en |
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Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 6.5 < 6.13.1 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 6.5 < 6.13.1" | en |
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Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 6.5 < 6.14-rc1 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 6.5 < 6.14-rc1" | en |
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