CVE-2025-38085
mm/hugetlb: fix huge_pmd_unshare() vs GUP-fast race
Severity Score
Exploit Likelihood
Affected Versions
Public Exploits
0Exploited in Wild
-Decision
Descriptions
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/hugetlb: fix huge_pmd_unshare() vs GUP-fast race huge_pmd_unshare() drops a reference on a page table that may have
previously been shared across processes, potentially turning it into a
normal page table used in another process in which unrelated VMAs can
afterwards be installed. If this happens in the middle of a concurrent gup_fast(), gup_fast() could
end up walking the page tables of another process. While I don't see any
way in which that immediately leads to kernel memory corruption, it is
really weird and unexpected. Fix it with an explicit broadcast IPI through tlb_remove_table_sync_one(),
just like we do in khugepaged when removing page tables for a THP
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/hugetlb: fix huge_pmd_unshare() vs GUP-fast race huge_pmd_unshare() drops a reference on a page table that may have previously been shared across processes, potentially turning it into a normal page table used in another process in which unrelated VMAs can afterwards be installed. If this happens in the middle of a concurrent gup_fast(), gup_fast() could end up walking the page tables of another process. While I don't see any way in which that immediately leads to kernel memory corruption, it is really weird and unexpected. Fix it with an explicit broadcast IPI through tlb_remove_table_sync_one(), just like we do in khugepaged when removing page tables for a THP collapse.
CVSS Scores
SSVC
- Decision:-
Timeline
- 2025-04-16 CVE Reserved
- 2025-06-28 CVE Published
- 2025-06-28 CVE Updated
- 2025-06-28 EPSS Updated
- ---------- Exploited in Wild
- ---------- KEV Due Date
- ---------- First Exploit
CWE
CAPEC
References (8)
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39dde65c9940c97fcd178a3d2b1c57ed8b7b68aa | 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" | >= 2.6.20 < 5.10.239 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 2.6.20 < 5.10.239" | en |
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Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 2.6.20 < 5.15.186 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 2.6.20 < 5.15.186" | en |
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Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 2.6.20 < 6.1.142 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 2.6.20 < 6.1.142" | en |
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Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 2.6.20 < 6.6.95 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 2.6.20 < 6.6.95" | en |
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Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 2.6.20 < 6.12.35 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 2.6.20 < 6.12.35" | en |
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Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 2.6.20 < 6.15.4 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 2.6.20 < 6.15.4" | en |
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Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 2.6.20 < 6.16-rc1 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 2.6.20 < 6.16-rc1" | en |
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