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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38129" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-07-03T08:35:33.728Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:59:48.021Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z" 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-2025-38129" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38129.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38129" title: "page_pool: Fix use-after-free in page_pool_recycle_in_ring" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npage_pool: Fix use-after-free in page_pool_recycle_in_ring\n\nsyzbot reported a uaf in page_pool_recycle_in_ring:\n\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in lock_release+0x151/0xa30 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5862\nRead of size 8 at addr ffff8880286045a0 by task syz.0.284/6943\n\nCPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6943 Comm: syz.0.284 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc3-syzkaller-gdfa94ce54f41 #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]\n dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:120\n print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]\n print_report+0x169/0x550 mm/kasan/report.c:489\n kasan_report+0x143/0x180 mm/kasan/report.c:602\n lock_release+0x151/0xa30 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5862\n __raw_spin_unlock_bh include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:165 [inline]\n _raw_spin_unlock_bh+0x1b/0x40 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:210\n spin_unlock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:396 [inline]\n ptr_ring_produce_bh include/linux/ptr_ring.h:164 [inline]\n page_pool_recycle_in_ring net/core/page_pool.c:707 [inline]\n page_pool_put_unrefed_netmem+0x748/0xb00 net/core/page_pool.c:826\n page_pool_put_netmem include/net/page_pool/helpers.h:323 [inline]\n page_pool_put_full_netmem include/net/page_pool/helpers.h:353 [inline]\n napi_pp_put_page+0x149/0x2b0 net/core/skbuff.c:1036\n skb_pp_recycle net/core/skbuff.c:1047 [inline]\n skb_free_head net/core/skbuff.c:1094 [inline]\n skb_release_data+0x6c4/0x8a0 net/core/skbuff.c:1125\n skb_release_all net/core/skbuff.c:1190 [inline]\n __kfree_skb net/core/skbuff.c:1204 [inline]\n sk_skb_reason_drop+0x1c9/0x380 net/core/skbuff.c:1242\n kfree_skb_reason include/linux/skbuff.h:1263 [inline]\n __skb_queue_purge_reason include/linux/skbuff.h:3343 [inline]\n\nroot cause is:\n\npage_pool_recycle_in_ring\n ptr_ring_produce\n spin_lock(&r-\u003eproducer_lock);\n WRITE_ONCE(r-\u003equeue[r-\u003eproducer++], ptr)\n //recycle last page to pool\n\t\t\t\tpage_pool_release\n\t\t\t\t page_pool_scrub\n\t\t\t\t page_pool_empty_ring\n\t\t\t\t ptr_ring_consume\n\t\t\t\t page_pool_return_page //release all page\n\t\t\t\t __page_pool_destroy\n\t\t\t\t free_percpu(pool-\u003erecycle_stats);\n\t\t\t\t free(pool) //free\n\n spin_unlock(&r-\u003eproducer_lock); //pool-\u003ering uaf read\n recycle_stat_inc(pool, ring);\n\npage_pool can be free while page pool recycle the last page in ring.\nAdd producer-lock barrier to page_pool_release to prevent the page\npool from being free before all pages have been recycled.\n\nrecycle_stat_inc() is empty when CONFIG_PAGE_POOL_STATS is not\nenabled, which will trigger Wempty-body build warning. Add definition\nfor pool stat macro to fix warning." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ff7d6b27f894f1469dc51ccb828b7363ccd9799f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c2c906142293931e33ef4be79ebc36c25c4e21dd"},{"version":"ff7d6b27f894f1469dc51ccb828b7363ccd9799f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d69f28ef7cdafdcf37ee310f38b1399e7d05f9a8"},{"version":"ff7d6b27f894f1469dc51ccb828b7363ccd9799f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1a8c0b61d4cb55c5440583ec9e7f86a730369e32"},{"version":"ff7d6b27f894f1469dc51ccb828b7363ccd9799f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4914c0a166540e534a0c1d43affd329d95fb56fd"},{"version":"ff7d6b27f894f1469dc51ccb828b7363ccd9799f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e869a85acc2e60dc554579b910826a4919d8cd98"},{"version":"ff7d6b27f894f1469dc51ccb828b7363ccd9799f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4ab8c0f8905c9c4d05e7f437e65a9a365573ff02"},{"version":"ff7d6b27f894f1469dc51ccb828b7363ccd9799f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"271683bb2cf32e5126c592b5d5e6a756fa374fd9"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.18"},{"version":"5.10.259","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.198","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.120","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.34","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16","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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