CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-38424

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.18%

8th percentile - higher than 8% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, a bug in the order of stopping perf sampling during do_exit() caused crashes when accessing userspace after its teardown. The fix reorders operations to stop perf before mm destruction and hardens PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN and PERF_SAMPLE_STACK_USER.

Risk Assessment

System crashes may occur during process exit, especially on ARM64 architectures, potentially leading to denial of service.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing this fix to avoid crashes related to perf sampling.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf: Fix sample vs do_exit() Baisheng Gao reported an ARM64 crash, which Mark decoded as being a synchronous external abort -- most likely due to trying to access MMIO in bad ways. The crash further shows perf trying to do a user stack sample while in exit_mmap()'s tlb_finish_mmu() -- i.e. while tearing down the address space it is trying to access. It turns out that we stop perf after we tear down the userspace mm; a receipie for disaster, since perf likes to access userspace for various reasons. Flip this order by moving up where we stop perf in do_exit(). Additionally, harden PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN and PERF_SAMPLE_STACK_USER to abort when the current task does not have an mm (exit_mm() makes sure to set current->mm = NULL; before commencing with the actual teardown). Such that CPU wide events don't trip on this same problem.

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