CVE-2025-38424

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Denial of Service via Perf Sample During Exit

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf: Fix sample vs do_exit() Baisheng Gao reported an ARM64 crash, which Mark decoded as being a synchronous external abort -- most likely due to trying to access MMIO in bad ways. The crash further shows perf trying to do a user stack sample while in exit_mmap()'s tlb_finish_mmu() -- i.e. while tearing down the address space it is trying to access. It turns out that we stop perf after we tear down the userspace mm; a receipie for disaster, since perf likes to access userspace for various reasons. Flip this order by moving up where we stop perf in do_exit(). Additionally, harden PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN and PERF_SAMPLE_STACK_USER to abort when the current task does not have an mm (exit_mm() makes sure to set current->mm = NULL; before commencing with the actual teardown). Such that CPU wide events don't trip on this same problem.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0007
EPSS Percentile 20.5%
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 (28)
debian/debian_linux 11.0
linux/Kernel 3.7.0 - 5.4.295linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.186linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.142linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.239linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.15.4linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.95linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.35linux
Linux/Linux < 3.7
Linux/Linux 3.7
... and 18 more
Published Jul 25, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026