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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38320" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-07-10T08:14:56.398Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:25:42.232Z" 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-2025-38320" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38320.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38320" title: "arm64/ptrace: Fix stack-out-of-bounds read in regs_get_kernel_stack_nth()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\narm64/ptrace: Fix stack-out-of-bounds read in regs_get_kernel_stack_nth()\n\nKASAN reports a stack-out-of-bounds read in regs_get_kernel_stack_nth().\n\nCall Trace:\n[ 97.283505] BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in regs_get_kernel_stack_nth+0xa8/0xc8\n[ 97.284677] Read of size 8 at addr ffff800089277c10 by task 1.sh/2550\n[ 97.285732]\n[ 97.286067] CPU: 7 PID: 2550 Comm: 1.sh Not tainted 6.6.0+ #11\n[ 97.287032] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)\n[ 97.287815] Call trace:\n[ 97.288279] dump_backtrace+0xa0/0x128\n[ 97.288946] show_stack+0x20/0x38\n[ 97.289551] dump_stack_lvl+0x78/0xc8\n[ 97.290203] print_address_description.constprop.0+0x84/0x3c8\n[ 97.291159] print_report+0xb0/0x280\n[ 97.291792] kasan_report+0x84/0xd0\n[ 97.292421] __asan_load8+0x9c/0xc0\n[ 97.293042] regs_get_kernel_stack_nth+0xa8/0xc8\n[ 97.293835] process_fetch_insn+0x770/0xa30\n[ 97.294562] kprobe_trace_func+0x254/0x3b0\n[ 97.295271] kprobe_dispatcher+0x98/0xe0\n[ 97.295955] kprobe_breakpoint_handler+0x1b0/0x210\n[ 97.296774] call_break_hook+0xc4/0x100\n[ 97.297451] brk_handler+0x24/0x78\n[ 97.298073] do_debug_exception+0xac/0x178\n[ 97.298785] el1_dbg+0x70/0x90\n[ 97.299344] el1h_64_sync_handler+0xcc/0xe8\n[ 97.300066] el1h_64_sync+0x78/0x80\n[ 97.300699] kernel_clone+0x0/0x500\n[ 97.301331] __arm64_sys_clone+0x70/0x90\n[ 97.302084] invoke_syscall+0x68/0x198\n[ 97.302746] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x11c/0x150\n[ 97.303569] do_el0_svc+0x38/0x50\n[ 97.304164] el0_svc+0x44/0x1d8\n[ 97.304749] el0t_64_sync_handler+0x100/0x130\n[ 97.305500] el0t_64_sync+0x188/0x190\n[ 97.306151]\n[ 97.306475] The buggy address belongs to stack of task 1.sh/2550\n[ 97.307461] and is located at offset 0 in frame:\n[ 97.308257] __se_sys_clone+0x0/0x138\n[ 97.308910]\n[ 97.309241] This frame has 1 object:\n[ 97.309873] [48, 184) 'args'\n[ 97.309876]\n[ 97.310749] The buggy address belongs to the virtual mapping at\n[ 97.310749] [ffff800089270000, ffff800089279000) created by:\n[ 97.310749] dup_task_struct+0xc0/0x2e8\n[ 97.313347]\n[ 97.313674] The buggy address belongs to the physical page:\n[ 97.314604] page: refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x14f69a\n[ 97.315885] flags: 0x15ffffe00000000(node=1|zone=2|lastcpupid=0xfffff)\n[ 97.316957] raw: 015ffffe00000000 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 0000000000000000\n[ 97.318207] raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000\n[ 97.319445] page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected\n[ 97.320371]\n[ 97.320694] Memory state around the buggy address:\n[ 97.321511] ffff800089277b00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00\n[ 97.322681] ffff800089277b80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00\n[ 97.323846] \u003effff800089277c00: 00 00 f1 f1 f1 f1 f1 f1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00\n[ 97.325023] ^\n[ 97.325683] ffff800089277c80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f3 f3 f3 f3 f3 f3 f3\n[ 97.326856] ffff800089277d00: f3 f3 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00\n\nThis issue seems to be related to the behavior of some gcc compilers and\nwas also fixed on the s390 architecture before:\n\n commit d93a855c31b7 (\"s390/ptrace: Avoid KASAN false positives in regs_get_kernel_stack_nth()\")\n\nAs described in that commit, regs_get_kernel_stack_nth() has confirmed that\n`addr` is on the stack, so reading the value at `*addr` should be allowed.\nUse READ_ONCE_NOCHECK() helper to silence the KASAN check for this case.\n\n[will: Use '*addr' as the argument to READ_ONCE_NOCHECK()]" affected: 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