CVE-2025-21691
MEDIUMLinux Kernel 6.5-6.6.74, 6.7-6.12.11, 6.13 - Unauthenticated Information Disclosure via cachestat() Permission Bypass
Title source: llmDescription
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cachestat: fix page cache statistics permission checking When the 'cachestat()' system call was added in commit cf264e1329fb ("cachestat: implement cachestat syscall"), it was meant to be a much more convenient (and performant) version of mincore() that didn't need mapping things into the user virtual address space in order to work. But it ended up missing the "check for writability or ownership" fix for mincore(), done in commit 134fca9063ad ("mm/mincore.c: make mincore() more conservative"). This just adds equivalent logic to 'cachestat()', modified for the file context (rather than vma).
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0020
EPSS Percentile
9.9%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
Status
published
Products (15)
linux/Kernel
6.13.0 - 6.13.1linux
linux/Kernel
6.5.0 - 6.6.75linux
linux/Kernel
6.7.0 - 6.12.12linux
Linux/Linux
< 6.5
Linux/Linux
6.12.12 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux
6.13.1 - 6.13.*
Linux/Linux
6.14
Linux/Linux
6.5
Linux/Linux
6.6.75 - 6.6.*
Linux/Linux
cf264e1329fb0307e044f7675849f9f38b44c11a - 5f537664e705b0bf8b7e329861f20128534f6a83
... and 5 more
Published
Feb 10, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026