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FKIE_CVE-2025-39902

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-10-01 08:15 - Updated: 2026-10-19 21:10

Severity

7.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/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: mm/slub: avoid accessing metadata when pointer is invalid in object_err() object_err() reports details of an object for further debugging, such as the freelist pointer, redzone, etc. However, if the pointer is invalid, attempting to access object metadata can lead to a crash since it does not point to a valid object. One known path to the crash is when alloc_consistency_checks() determines the pointer to the allocated object is invalid because of a freelist corruption, and calls object_err() to report it. The debug code should report and handle the corruption gracefully and not crash in the process. In case the pointer is NULL or check_valid_pointer() returns false for the pointer, only print the pointer value and skip accessing metadata.

References

URL	Tags
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ef7058b4dc6fcef622ac23b45225db57f17b83f	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f0797f17927b5cad0fb7eced422f9a7c30a3191	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3baa1da473e6e50281324ff1d332d1a07a3bb02e	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e287256904ee796c9477e3ec92b07f236481ef3	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/872f2c34ff232af1e65ad2df86d61163c8ffad42	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b4efccec8d06ceb10a7d34d7b1c449c569d53770	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dda6ec365ab04067adae40ef17015db447e90736	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f66012909e7bf383fcdc5850709ed5716073fdc4	Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html	Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html	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	6.17
linux	linux_kernel	6.17
linux	linux_kernel	6.17
linux	linux_kernel	6.17
debian	debian_linux	11.0

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CVE-2025-39902 (GCVE-0-2025-39902)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-01 07:42 – Updated: 2026-10-15 22:02

Title

mm/slub: avoid accessing metadata when pointer is invalid in object_err()

Summary

Severity

7.1 (High)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-10-15 21:54 UTC

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7061 records in the last 180 days details

References

10 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/872f2c34ff232af1e…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f66012909e7bf383f…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e287256904ee796c…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f0797f17927b5cad…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ef7058b4dc6fcef6…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dda6ec365ab04067a…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3baa1da473e6e5028…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b4efccec8d06ceb10…
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: 81819f0fc8285a2a5a921c019e3e3d7b6169d225 , < 872f2c34ff232af1e65ad2df86d61163c8ffad42 (git) Affected: 81819f0fc8285a2a5a921c019e3e3d7b6169d225 , < f66012909e7bf383fcdc5850709ed5716073fdc4 (git) Affected: 81819f0fc8285a2a5a921c019e3e3d7b6169d225 , < 7e287256904ee796c9477e3ec92b07f236481ef3 (git) Affected: 81819f0fc8285a2a5a921c019e3e3d7b6169d225 , < 1f0797f17927b5cad0fb7eced422f9a7c30a3191 (git) Affected: 81819f0fc8285a2a5a921c019e3e3d7b6169d225 , < 0ef7058b4dc6fcef622ac23b45225db57f17b83f (git) Affected: 81819f0fc8285a2a5a921c019e3e3d7b6169d225 , < dda6ec365ab04067adae40ef17015db447e90736 (git) Affected: 81819f0fc8285a2a5a921c019e3e3d7b6169d225 , < 3baa1da473e6e50281324ff1d332d1a07a3bb02e (git) Affected: 81819f0fc8285a2a5a921c019e3e3d7b6169d225 , < b4efccec8d06ceb10a7d34d7b1c449c569d53770 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 2.6.22 Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.22 (semver) Unaffected: 5.4.299 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.243 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.192 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.151 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.105 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.46 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.16.6 , ≤ 6.16.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.17 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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