CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-39902

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-10-01 Modified 2026-10-19 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2025-10-01
Last modified
2026-10-19
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/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
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/slub: avoid accessing metadata when pointer is invalid in object_err() object_err() reports details of an object for further debugging, such as the freelist pointer, redzone, etc. However, if the pointer is invalid, attempting to access object metadata can lead to a crash since it does not point to a valid object. One known path to the crash is when alloc_consistency_checks() determines the pointer to the allocated object is invalid because of a freelist corruption, and calls object_err() to report it. The debug code should report and handle the corruption gracefully and not crash in the process. In case the pointer is NULL or check_valid_pointer() returns false for the pointer, only print the pointer value and skip accessing metadata.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.22 < 5.4.299) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.243) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.192) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.151) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.105) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.46) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.16.6) • linux linux kernel 6.17 • debian debian linux 11.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References