CVE-2025-38085: high-severity vulnerability in Linux
mm/hugetlb: fix huge_pmd_unshare() vs GUP-fast race
Published · Updated
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.8epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 95% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
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References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/034a52b5ef57c9c8225d94e9067f3390bb33922fhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1013af4f585fccc4d3e5c5824d174de2257f7d6dhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/952596b08c74e8fe9e2883d1dc8a8f54a37384echttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3d864c901a300c295692d129159fc3001a56185https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6bfeb97941a9187833b526bc6cc4ff5706d0ce9https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7754d3aa7bf9f62218d096c0c8f6c13698fac8bhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe684290418ef9ef76630072086ee530b92f02b8https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.htmlhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.htmlhttps://project-zero.issues.chromium.org/issues/420715744