{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2025-38424", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2025-04-16T04:51:24.014Z", "datePublished": "2025-07-25T14:16:44.846Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T12:01:47.114Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T12:01:47.114Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nperf: Fix sample vs do_exit()\n\nBaisheng Gao reported an ARM64 crash, which Mark decoded as being a\nsynchronous external abort -- most likely due to trying to access\nMMIO in bad ways.\n\nThe crash further shows perf trying to do a user stack sample while in\nexit_mmap()'s tlb_finish_mmu() -- i.e. while tearing down the address\nspace it is trying to access.\n\nIt turns out that we stop perf after we tear down the userspace mm; a\nreceipie for disaster, since perf likes to access userspace for\nvarious reasons.\n\nFlip this order by moving up where we stop perf in do_exit().\n\nAdditionally, harden PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN and PERF_SAMPLE_STACK_USER\nto abort when the current task does not have an mm (exit_mm() makes\nsure to set current->mm = NULL; before commencing with the actual\nteardown). Such that CPU wide events don't trip on this same problem." } ], "metrics": [ { "cvssV3_1": { "version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 7.8, "baseSeverity": "HIGH" }, "scenarios": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - The vulnerability is reached through the `perf_event_open(2)` syscall creating a sampling event with `PERF_SAMPLE_STACK_USER`/`PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN`, plus a normal task exit. No network or physical component is involved.\nAC:L - The attacker controls both sides of the race — it creates the sampling event, chooses when the task calls `exit_group()`, and can widen the `exit_mmap()` window arbitrarily by mapping a large address space with many VMAs; failed attempts are free and can be repeated thousands of times per second via forked children with `attr.inherit=1`.\nPR:L - An ordinary unprivileged user can do this at the upstream default `perf_event_paranoid=2` — `PERF_SAMPLE_STACK_USER`/`PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN` have no capability gate, per-task events on one's own tasks need only `ptrace_may_access`, and `exclude_kernel=1` samples that skid into kernel mode are deliberately not dropped (revert 6a8a75f32357; `sample_is_allowed()` only guards `sigtrap`). On the widely deployed `perf_event_paranoid<=1` systems it is fully deterministic with software clock events.\nUI:N - The attacker triggers everything from its own processes — open the event, exit the task. No victim action, no privileged profiler, and no administrator involvement is required.\nS:U - The unsafe access and its consequences are contained within the kernel's own security authority; no VM, IOMMU, or sandbox boundary is crossed.\nC:H - `__copy_from_user_inatomic()`/`__get_user()` read through an mm whose data pages and page-table pages have already been freed and can be reallocated, and the harvested bytes are written verbatim into the attacker-readable perf ring buffer — a use-after-free read that can disclose freed/reused memory or, via a walk through a recycled page-table page, effectively arbitrary physical memory.\nI:H - The use-after-free on the page tables makes the CPU issue accesses to attacker-groomable, arbitrary physical addresses; per UAF scoring guidance this is High, and it is concretely damaging because the reported case lands on MMIO, where reads carry side effects (read-to-clear status, FIFO pops) that corrupt device and system state.\nA:H - The reported failure is a fatal kernel abort — on arm64 `do_sea()` routes the synchronous external abort to `arm64_notify_die()` with `SIGKILL/SI_KERNEL`, which in kernel mode is an unrecoverable oops/panic; the attacker can trigger it repeatedly, giving a reliable full system DoS." } ] } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "kernel/events/core.c", "kernel/exit.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "c5ebcedb566ef17bda7b02686e0d658a7bb42ee7", "lessThan": "7b8f3c72175c6a63a95cf2e219f8b78e2baad34e", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "c5ebcedb566ef17bda7b02686e0d658a7bb42ee7", "lessThan": "507c9a595bad3abd107c6a8857d7fd125d89f386", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "c5ebcedb566ef17bda7b02686e0d658a7bb42ee7", "lessThan": "a9f6aab7910a0ef2895797f15c947f6d1053160f", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "c5ebcedb566ef17bda7b02686e0d658a7bb42ee7", "lessThan": "975ffddfa2e19823c719459d2364fcaa17673964", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "c5ebcedb566ef17bda7b02686e0d658a7bb42ee7", "lessThan": "2ee6044a693735396bb47eeaba1ac3ae26c1c99b", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "c5ebcedb566ef17bda7b02686e0d658a7bb42ee7", "lessThan": "456019adaa2f5366b89c868dea9b483179bece54", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "c5ebcedb566ef17bda7b02686e0d658a7bb42ee7", "lessThan": "7311970d07c4606362081250da95f2c7901fc0db", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "c5ebcedb566ef17bda7b02686e0d658a7bb42ee7", "lessThan": "4f6fc782128355931527cefe3eb45338abd8ab39", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" } ] }, { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "kernel/events/core.c", "kernel/exit.c" 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