CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-38424

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-07-25 Modified 2026-10-15 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2025-07-25
Last modified
2026-10-15
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])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 3.7 < 5.4.295) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.239) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.186) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.142) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.95) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.35) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.15.4) • linux linux kernel 6.16 • debian debian linux 11.0

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