CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-38445
7.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-07-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
md/raid1: Fix stack memory use after return in raid1_reshape
In the raid1_reshape function, newpool is
allocated on the stack and assigned to conf->r1bio_pool.
This results in conf->r1bio_pool.wait.head pointing
to a stack address.
Accessing this address later can lead to a kernel panic.
Example access path:
raid1_reshape()
{
// newpool is on the stack
mempool_t newpool, oldpool;
// initialize newpool.wait.head to stack address
mempool_init(&newpool, ...);
conf->r1bio_pool = newpool;
}
raid1_read_request() or raid1_write_request()
{
alloc_r1bio()
{
mempool_alloc()
{
// if pool->alloc fails
remove_element()
{
--pool->curr_nr;
}
}
}
}
mempool_free()
{
if (pool->curr_nr < pool->min_nr) {
// pool->wait.head is a stack address
// wake_up() will try to access this invalid address
// which leads to a kernel panic
return;
wake_up(&pool->wait);
}
}
Fix:
reinit conf->r1bio_pool.wait after assigning newpool.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.18 < 5.4.296)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.240)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.189)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.146)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.99)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.39)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.15.7)
• linux linux kernel 6.16
• debian debian linux 11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/12b00ec99624f8da8c325f2dd6e807df26df0025 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/48da050b4f54ed639b66278d0ae6f4107b2c4e2d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f35e48b76655e45522df338876dfef88dafcc71 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61fd5e93006cf82ec8ee5c115ab5cf4bbd104bdb Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/776e6186dc9ecbdb8a1b706e989166c8a99bbf64 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d67ed2ccd2d1dcfda9292c0ea8697a9d0f2f0d98 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d8a6853d00fbaa810765c8ed2f452a5832273968 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df5894014a92ff0196dbc212a7764e97366fd2b7 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html Third Party Advisory