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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-21881" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-03-27T14:57:10.241Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:08:19.723Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:29.455Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21881" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21881.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21881" title: "uprobes: Reject the shared zeropage in uprobe_write_opcode()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nuprobes: Reject the shared zeropage in uprobe_write_opcode()\n\nWe triggered the following crash in syzkaller tests:\n\n BUG: Bad page state in process syz.7.38 pfn:1eff3\n page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x1eff3\n flags: 0x3fffff00004004(referenced|reserved|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x1fffff)\n raw: 003fffff00004004 ffffe6c6c07bfcc8 ffffe6c6c07bfcc8 0000000000000000\n raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000fffffffe 0000000000000000\n page dumped because: PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE flag(s) set\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n dump_stack_lvl+0x32/0x50\n bad_page+0x69/0xf0\n free_unref_page_prepare+0x401/0x500\n free_unref_page+0x6d/0x1b0\n uprobe_write_opcode+0x460/0x8e0\n install_breakpoint.part.0+0x51/0x80\n register_for_each_vma+0x1d9/0x2b0\n __uprobe_register+0x245/0x300\n bpf_uprobe_multi_link_attach+0x29b/0x4f0\n link_create+0x1e2/0x280\n __sys_bpf+0x75f/0xac0\n __x64_sys_bpf+0x1a/0x30\n do_syscall_64+0x56/0x100\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x78/0xe2\n\n BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:00000000452453e0 type:MM_FILEPAGES val:-1\n\nThe following syzkaller test case can be used to reproduce:\n\n r2 = creat(&(0x7f0000000000)='./file0\\x00', 0x8)\n write$nbd(r2, &(0x7f0000000580)=ANY=[], 0x10)\n r4 = openat(0xffffffffffffff9c, &(0x7f0000000040)='./file0\\x00', 0x42, 0x0)\n mmap$IORING_OFF_SQ_RING(&(0x7f0000ffd000/0x3000)=nil, 0x3000, 0x0, 0x12, r4, 0x0)\n r5 = userfaultfd(0x80801)\n ioctl$UFFDIO_API(r5, 0xc018aa3f, &(0x7f0000000040)={0xaa, 0x20})\n r6 = userfaultfd(0x80801)\n ioctl$UFFDIO_API(r6, 0xc018aa3f, &(0x7f0000000140))\n ioctl$UFFDIO_REGISTER(r6, 0xc020aa00, &(0x7f0000000100)={{&(0x7f0000ffc000/0x4000)=nil, 0x4000}, 0x2})\n ioctl$UFFDIO_ZEROPAGE(r5, 0xc020aa04, &(0x7f0000000000)={{&(0x7f0000ffd000/0x1000)=nil, 0x1000}})\n r7 = bpf$PROG_LOAD(0x5, &(0x7f0000000140)={0x2, 0x3, &(0x7f0000000200)=ANY=[@ANYBLOB=\"1800000000120000000000000000000095\"], &(0x7f0000000000)='GPL\\x00', 0x7, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, '\\x00', 0x0, @fallback=0x30, 0xffffffffffffffff, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x10, 0x0, @void, @value}, 0x94)\n bpf$BPF_LINK_CREATE_XDP(0x1c, &(0x7f0000000040)={r7, 0x0, 0x30, 0x1e, @val=@uprobe_multi={&(0x7f0000000080)='./file0\\x00', &(0x7f0000000100)=[0x2], 0x0, 0x0, 0x1}}, 0x40)\n\nThe cause is that zero pfn is set to the PTE without increasing the RSS\ncount in mfill_atomic_pte_zeropage() and the refcount of zero folio does\nnot increase accordingly. Then, the operation on the same pfn is performed\nin uprobe_write_opcode()-\u003e__replace_page() to unconditional decrease the\nRSS count and old_folio's refcount.\n\nTherefore, two bugs are introduced:\n\n 1. The RSS count is incorrect, when process exit, the check_mm() report\n error \"Bad rss-count\".\n\n 2. The reserved folio (zero folio) is freed when folio-\u003erefcount is zero,\n then free_pages_prepare-\u003efree_page_is_bad() report error\n \"Bad page state\".\n\nThere is more, the following warning could also theoretically be triggered:\n\n __replace_page()\n -\u003e ...\n -\u003e folio_remove_rmap_pte()\n -\u003e VM_WARN_ON_FOLIO(is_zero_folio(folio), folio)\n\nConsidering that uprobe hit on the zero folio is a very rare case, just\nreject zero old folio immediately after get_user_page_vma_remote().\n\n[ mingo: Cleaned up the changelog ]" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"2b144498350860b6ee9dc57ff27a93ad488de5dc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c4cb2bfa99513311886c1eb5c1c2ac26f3338a6e"},{"version":"2b144498350860b6ee9dc57ff27a93ad488de5dc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0b6f19714588cf2366b0364234f97ba963688f63"},{"version":"2b144498350860b6ee9dc57ff27a93ad488de5dc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"13cca2b73e2b0ec3ea6d6615d615395621d22752"},{"version":"2b144498350860b6ee9dc57ff27a93ad488de5dc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"54011fc94422f094eaf47555284de70a4bc32bb9"},{"version":"2b144498350860b6ee9dc57ff27a93ad488de5dc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bddf10d26e6e5114e7415a0e442ec6f51a559468"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.5"},{"version":"6.1.130","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.81","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.13.*"},{"version":"6.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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