CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-38510
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-08-16
- 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:
kasan: remove kasan_find_vm_area() to prevent possible deadlock
find_vm_area() couldn't be called in atomic_context. If find_vm_area() is
called to reports vm area information, kasan can trigger deadlock like:
CPU0 CPU1
vmalloc();
alloc_vmap_area();
spin_lock(&vn->busy.lock)
spin_lock_bh(&some_lock);
<interrupt occurs>
<in softirq>
spin_lock(&some_lock);
<access invalid address>
kasan_report();
print_report();
print_address_description();
kasan_find_vm_area();
find_vm_area();
spin_lock(&vn->busy.lock) // deadlock!
To prevent possible deadlock while kasan reports, remove kasan_find_vm_area().
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.18 < 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-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c3566d831def922cd56322c772a7b20d8b0e0c0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2d89dab1ea6086e6cbe6fe92531b496fb6808cb9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/595f78d99b9051600233c0a5c4c47e1097e6ed01 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ee9b3d84775944fb8c8a447961cd01274ac671c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8377d7744bdce5c4b3f1b58924eebd3fdc078dfc Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory