CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-37923
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-05-20
- Last modified
- 2026-07-30
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tracing: Fix oob write in trace_seq_to_buffer()
syzbot reported this bug:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in trace_seq_to_buffer kernel/trace/trace.c:1830 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in tracing_splice_read_pipe+0x6be/0xdd0 kernel/trace/trace.c:6822
Write of size 4507 at addr ffff888032b6b000 by task syz.2.320/7260
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 7260 Comm: syz.2.320 Not tainted 6.15.0-rc1-syzkaller-00301-g3bde70a2c827 #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2025
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:408 [inline]
print_report+0xc3/0x670 mm/kasan/report.c:521
kasan_report+0xe0/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:634
check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:183 [inline]
kasan_check_range+0xef/0x1a0 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
__asan_memcpy+0x3c/0x60 mm/kasan/shadow.c:106
trace_seq_to_buffer kernel/trace/trace.c:1830 [inline]
tracing_splice_read_pipe+0x6be/0xdd0 kernel/trace/trace.c:6822
....
==================================================================
It has been reported that trace_seq_to_buffer() tries to copy more data
than PAGE_SIZE to buf. Therefore, to prevent this, we should use the
smaller of trace_seq_used(&iter->seq) and PAGE_SIZE as an argument.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.30 < 5.4.294)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.238)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.182)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.138)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.90)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.28)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.14.6)
• linux linux kernel 6.15
• debian debian linux 11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/056ebbddb8faf4ddf83d005454dd78fc25c2d897 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1a3f9482b50b74fa9421bff8ceecfefd0dc06f8f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f27a3e93b8d674b24b27fcdbc6f72743cd96c0d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/441021e5b3c7d9bd1b963590652c415929f3b157 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/665ce421041890571852422487f4c613d1824ba9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c5d2b66c5ef5037b4b4360e5447605ff00ba1bd4 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f4b0174e9f18aaba59ee6ffdaf8827a7f94eb606 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5178c41bb43444a6008150fe6094497135d07cb Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/08/msg00010.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory