CVE-2025-38076

HIGH

Linux Kernel 6.13-6.14.9 - Use-After-Free in Module Tag Percpu Counters

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: alloc_tag: allocate percpu counters for module tags dynamically When a module gets unloaded it checks whether any of its tags are still in use and if so, we keep the memory containing module's allocation tags alive until all tags are unused. However percpu counters referenced by the tags are freed by free_module(). This will lead to UAF if the memory allocated by a module is accessed after module was unloaded. To fix this we allocate percpu counters for module allocation tags dynamically and we keep it alive for tags which are still in use after module unloading. This also removes the requirement of a larger PERCPU_MODULE_RESERVE when memory allocation profiling is enabled because percpu memory for counters does not need to be reserved anymore.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0015
EPSS Percentile 4.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-416
Status published
Products (9)
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.14.9linux
Linux/Linux < 6.13
Linux/Linux 0db6f8d7820a4b788565dac8eed52bfc2c3216da - 12ca42c237756182aad8ab04654c952765cb9061
Linux/Linux 0db6f8d7820a4b788565dac8eed52bfc2c3216da - 3cc733e6d96c938d2b82be96858a0ab900eb6fdc
Linux/Linux 6.13
Linux/Linux 6.14.9 - 6.14.*
Linux/Linux 6.15
linux/linux_kernel 6.15 rc1 (7 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 6.13 - 6.14.9
Published Jun 18, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026