vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2025-38383): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jul 25, 2025
Added
Jul 31, 2025
Modified
Nov 20, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/vmalloc: fix data race in show_numa_info()

The following data-race was found in show_numa_info():

==================================================================
BUG: KCSAN: data-race in vmalloc_info_show / vmalloc_info_show

read to 0xffff88800971fe30 of 4 bytes by task 8289 on cpu 0:
show_numa_info mm/vmalloc.c:4936 [inline]
vmalloc_info_show+0x5a8/0x7e0 mm/vmalloc.c:5016
seq_read_iter+0x373/0xb40 fs/seq_file.c:230
proc_reg_read_iter+0x11e/0x170 fs/proc/inode.c:299
....

write to 0xffff88800971fe30 of 4 bytes by task 8287 on cpu 1:
show_numa_info mm/vmalloc.c:4934 [inline]
vmalloc_info_show+0x38f/0x7e0 mm/vmalloc.c:5016
seq_read_iter+0x373/0xb40 fs/seq_file.c:230
proc_reg_read_iter+0x11e/0x170 fs/proc/inode.c:299
....

value changed: 0x0000008f -> 0x00000000
==================================================================

According to this report,there is a read/write data-race because
m->private is accessible to multiple CPUs. To fix this, instead of
allocating the heap in proc_vmalloc_init() and passing the heap address to
m->private, vmalloc_info_show() should allocate the heap.

Solutions

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