CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-38085

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.12%

2th percentile - higher than 2% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, a race condition was found between huge_pmd_unshare() and GUP-fast. huge_pmd_unshare() may remove a shared page table, causing gup_fast() to walk another process's page tables. The fix adds an explicit broadcast IPI.

Risk Assessment

This bug could lead to unexpected system behavior, potentially allowing access to another process's memory, increasing the risk of isolation breach.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

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