Tracker / CVE-2025-38085
CVE-2025-38085
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.
Affected products and versions
| debian | debian_linux |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel · 2.6.20 → 5.10.239 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.186 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.142 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.13 → 6.15.4 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.95 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.12.35 |