CVE-2025-38396

HIGH

Linux kernel - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs: export anon_inode_make_secure_inode() and fix secretmem LSM bypass Export anon_inode_make_secure_inode() to allow KVM guest_memfd to create anonymous inodes with proper security context. This replaces the current pattern of calling alloc_anon_inode() followed by inode_init_security_anon() for creating security context manually. This change also fixes a security regression in secretmem where the S_PRIVATE flag was not cleared after alloc_anon_inode(), causing LSM/SELinux checks to be bypassed for secretmem file descriptors. As guest_memfd currently resides in the KVM module, we need to export this symbol for use outside the core kernel. In the future, guest_memfd might be moved to core-mm, at which point the symbols no longer would have to be exported. When/if that happens is still unclear.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0007
EPSS Percentile 21.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (19)
debian/debian_linux 11.0
linux/Kernel 6.0.0 - 6.1.146linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.15.6linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.97linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.37linux
Linux/Linux < 6.0
Linux/Linux 2bfe15c5261212130f1a71f32a300bcf426443d4 - 66d29d757c968d2bee9124816da5d718eb352959
Linux/Linux 2bfe15c5261212130f1a71f32a300bcf426443d4 - 6ca45ea48530332a4ba09595767bd26d3232743b
Linux/Linux 2bfe15c5261212130f1a71f32a300bcf426443d4 - cbe4134ea4bc493239786220bd69cb8a13493190
Linux/Linux 2bfe15c5261212130f1a71f32a300bcf426443d4 - e3eed01347721cd7a8819568161c91d538fbf229
... and 9 more
Published Jul 25, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026