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FKIE_CVE-2025-38424

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-07-25 15:15 - Updated: 2026-10-15 22:18

Severity

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

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.

References

URL	Tags
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ee6044a693735396bb47eeaba1ac3ae26c1c99b	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/456019adaa2f5366b89c868dea9b483179bece54	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f6fc782128355931527cefe3eb45338abd8ab39	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/507c9a595bad3abd107c6a8857d7fd125d89f386	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7311970d07c4606362081250da95f2c7901fc0db	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b8f3c72175c6a63a95cf2e219f8b78e2baad34e	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/975ffddfa2e19823c719459d2364fcaa17673964	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9f6aab7910a0ef2895797f15c947f6d1053160f	Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html	Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html	Mailing List, Third Party Advisory

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	6.16
linux	linux_kernel	6.16
debian	debian_linux	11.0

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CVE-2025-38424 (GCVE-0-2025-38424)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-25 14:16 – Updated: 2026-10-15 21:52

Title

perf: Fix sample vs do_exit()

Summary

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-10-15 21:50 UTC

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6637 records in the last 180 days details

References

10 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b8f3c72175c6a63a…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/507c9a595bad3abd1…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9f6aab7910a0ef28…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/975ffddfa2e19823c…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ee6044a693735396…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/456019adaa2f5366b…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7311970d07c460636…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f6fc782128355931…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: c5ebcedb566ef17bda7b02686e0d658a7bb42ee7 , < 7b8f3c72175c6a63a95cf2e219f8b78e2baad34e (git) Affected: c5ebcedb566ef17bda7b02686e0d658a7bb42ee7 , < 507c9a595bad3abd107c6a8857d7fd125d89f386 (git) Affected: c5ebcedb566ef17bda7b02686e0d658a7bb42ee7 , < a9f6aab7910a0ef2895797f15c947f6d1053160f (git) Affected: c5ebcedb566ef17bda7b02686e0d658a7bb42ee7 , < 975ffddfa2e19823c719459d2364fcaa17673964 (git) Affected: c5ebcedb566ef17bda7b02686e0d658a7bb42ee7 , < 2ee6044a693735396bb47eeaba1ac3ae26c1c99b (git) Affected: c5ebcedb566ef17bda7b02686e0d658a7bb42ee7 , < 456019adaa2f5366b89c868dea9b483179bece54 (git) Affected: c5ebcedb566ef17bda7b02686e0d658a7bb42ee7 , < 7311970d07c4606362081250da95f2c7901fc0db (git) Affected: c5ebcedb566ef17bda7b02686e0d658a7bb42ee7 , < 4f6fc782128355931527cefe3eb45338abd8ab39 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 3.7 Unaffected: 0 , < 3.7 (semver) Unaffected: 5.4.295 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.239 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.186 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.142 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.95 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.35 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.15.4 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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