CVE-2025-40064
HighCVSS 7.8Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk3th percentile - higher than 3% of all known CVEs
Summary
A use-after-free vulnerability was discovered in the Linux kernel's SMC module in the __pnet_find_base_ndev() function. The issue occurs during connection setup when a network device is accessed after being freed, potentially causing system crashes.
Risk Assessment
An attacker could exploit this use-after-free bug to trigger a kernel panic or potentially escalate privileges within the kernel context.
Recommendation
Apply the official kernel patch immediately, which adds proper device reference counting before using the network device in smc_pnet_find_ism_resource() and smc_pnet_find_roce_resource().
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Original NVD description (English source)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smc: Fix use-after-free in __pnet_find_base_ndev(). syzbot reported use-after-free of net_device in __pnet_find_base_ndev(), which was called during connect(). [0] smc_pnet_find_ism_resource() fetches sk_dst_get(sk)->dev and passes down to pnet_find_base_ndev(), where RTNL is held. Then, UAF happened at __pnet_find_base_ndev() when the dev is first used. This means dev had already been freed before acquiring RTNL in pnet_find_base_ndev(). While dev is going away, dst->dev could be swapped with blackhole_netdev, and the dev's refcnt by dst will be released. We must hold dev's refcnt before calling smc_pnet_find_ism_resource(). Also, smc_pnet_find_roce_resource() has the same problem. Let's use __sk_dst_get() and dst_dev_rcu() in the two functions. [0]: BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __pnet_find_base_ndev+0x1b1/0x1c0 net/smc/smc_pnet.c:926 Read of size 1 at addr ffff888036bac33a by task syz.0.3632/18609 CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 18609 Comm: syz.0.3632 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/18/2025 Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:120 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline] print_report+0xca/0x240 mm/kasan/report.c:482 kasan_report+0x118/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595 __pnet_find_base_ndev+0x1b1/0x1c0 net/smc/smc_pnet.c:926 pnet_find_base_ndev net/smc/smc_pnet.c:946 [inline] smc_pnet_find_ism_by_pnetid net/smc/smc_pnet.c:1103 [inline] smc_pnet_find_ism_resource+0xef/0x390 net/smc/smc_pnet.c:1154 smc_find_ism_device net/smc/af_smc.c:1030 [inline] smc_find_proposal_devices net/smc/af_smc.c:1115 [inline] __smc_connect+0x372/0x1890 net/smc/af_smc.c:1545 smc_connect+0x877/0xd90 net/smc/af_smc.c:1715 __sys_connect_file net/socket.c:2086 [inline] __sys_connect+0x313/0x440 net/socket.c:2105 __do_sys_connect net/socket.c:2111 [inline] __se_sys_connect net/socket.c:2108 [inline] __x64_sys_connect+0x7a/0x90 net/socket.c:2108 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f RIP: 0033:0x7f47cbf8eba9 Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48 RSP: 002b:00007f47ccdb1038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002a RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f47cc1d5fa0 RCX: 00007f47cbf8eba9 RDX: 0000000000000010 RSI: 0000200000000280 RDI: 000000000000000b RBP: 00007f47cc011e19 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 00007f47cc1d6038 R14: 00007f47cc1d5fa0 R15: 00007ffc512f8aa8 </TASK> The buggy address belongs to the physical page: page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff888036bacd00 pfn:0x36bac flags: 0xfff00000000000(node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff) raw: 00fff00000000000 ffffea0001243d08 ffff8880b863fdc0 0000000000000000 raw: ffff888036bacd00 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected page_owner tracks the page as freed page last allocated via order 2, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x446dc0(GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT|__GFP_ZERO|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL|__GFP_COMP), pid 16741, tgid 16741 (syz-executor), ts 343313197788, free_ts 380670750466 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline] post_alloc_hook+0x240/0x2a0 mm/page_alloc.c:1851 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1859 [inline] get_page_from_freelist+0x21e4/0x22c0 mm/page_alloc.c:3858 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x181/0x370 mm/page_alloc.c:5148 alloc_pages_mpol+0x232/0x4a0 mm/mempolicy.c:2416 ___kmalloc_large_node+0x5f/0x1b0 mm/slub.c:4317 __kmalloc_large_node_noprof+0x18/0x90 mm/slub.c:4348 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:4364 [inline] __kvmalloc_node ---truncated---