CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-38023
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-06-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nfs: handle failure of nfs_get_lock_context in unlock path
When memory is insufficient, the allocation of nfs_lock_context in
nfs_get_lock_context() fails and returns -ENOMEM. If we mistakenly treat
an nfs4_unlockdata structure (whose l_ctx member has been set to -ENOMEM)
as valid and proceed to execute rpc_run_task(), this will trigger a NULL
pointer dereference in nfs4_locku_prepare. For example:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000000c
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
CPU: 15 UID: 0 PID: 12 Comm: kworker/u64:0 Not tainted 6.15.0-rc2-dirty #60
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-2.fc40
Workqueue: rpciod rpc_async_schedule
RIP: 0010:nfs4_locku_prepare+0x35/0xc2
Code: 89 f2 48 89 fd 48 c7 c7 68 69 ef b5 53 48 8b 8e 90 00 00 00 48 89 f3
RSP: 0018:ffffbbafc006bdb8 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 000000000000004b RBX: ffff9b964fc1fa00 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: fffffffffffffff4 RDI: ffff9ba53fddbf40
RBP: ffff9ba539934000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffbbafc006bc38
R10: ffffffffb6b689c8 R11: 0000000000000003 R12: ffff9ba539934030
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000004248060 R15: ffffffffb56d1c30
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9ba5881f0000(0000) knlGS:00000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000000000000000c CR3: 000000093f244000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__rpc_execute+0xbc/0x480
rpc_async_schedule+0x2f/0x40
process_one_work+0x232/0x5d0
worker_thread+0x1da/0x3d0
? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
kthread+0x10d/0x240
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork+0x34/0x50
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
</TASK>
Modules linked in:
CR2: 000000000000000c
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
Free the allocated nfs4_unlockdata when nfs_get_lock_context() fails and
return NULL to terminate subsequent rpc_run_task, preventing NULL pointer
dereference.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.12 < 5.4.294)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.238)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.184)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.140)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.92)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.30)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.14.8)
• linux linux kernel 6.15
• debian debian linux 11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c189fd40a09a03f9a900bedb2d9064f1734d72a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72f552e00c50f265896d3c19edc6696aa2910081 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/85fb7f8ca5f8c138579fdfc9b97b3083e6077d40 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6879a076b98c99c9fe747816fe1c29543442441 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c457dc1ec770a22636b473ce5d35614adfe97636 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da824f1271633bcb515ca8084cda3eda4b3ace51 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/db6f5ee1fc8f54d079d0751292c2fc2d78e3aad1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f601960af04d2ecb007c928ba153d34051acd9c1 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/08/msg00010.html Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html Third Party Advisory