CVE-2025-39941

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 6.14-6.16.8 - Race Condition in zram Slot Write

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: zram: fix slot write race condition Parallel concurrent writes to the same zram index result in leaked zsmalloc handles. Schematically we can have something like this: CPU0 CPU1 zram_slot_lock() zs_free(handle) zram_slot_lock() zram_slot_lock() zs_free(handle) zram_slot_lock() compress compress handle = zs_malloc() handle = zs_malloc() zram_slot_lock zram_set_handle(handle) zram_slot_lock zram_slot_lock zram_set_handle(handle) zram_slot_lock Either CPU0 or CPU1 zsmalloc handle will leak because zs_free() is done too early. In fact, we need to reset zram entry right before we set its new handle, all under the same slot lock scope.

Scores

CVSS v3 4.7
EPSS 0.0008
EPSS Percentile 0.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-362
Status published
Products (9)
linux/Kernel 6.14.0 - 6.16.9linux
Linux/Linux < 6.14
Linux/Linux 6.14
Linux/Linux 6.16.9 - 6.16.*
Linux/Linux 6.17
Linux/Linux 71268035f5d734ad6373d953298bd5779985497a - ce4be9e4307c5a60701ff6e0cafa74caffdc54ce
Linux/Linux 71268035f5d734ad6373d953298bd5779985497a - ff750e9f2c4d63854c33967d1646b5e89a9a19a2
linux/linux_kernel 6.17 rc1 (6 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 6.14 - 6.16.9
Published Oct 04, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026