CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-39902
5.5 MEDIUM
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- 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
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ef7058b4dc6fcef622ac23b45225db57f17b83f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f0797f17927b5cad0fb7eced422f9a7c30a3191 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3baa1da473e6e50281324ff1d332d1a07a3bb02e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e287256904ee796c9477e3ec92b07f236481ef3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/872f2c34ff232af1e65ad2df86d61163c8ffad42 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b4efccec8d06ceb10a7d34d7b1c449c569d53770 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dda6ec365ab04067adae40ef17015db447e90736 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f66012909e7bf383fcdc5850709ed5716073fdc4 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