# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38364"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-07-25T12:47:34.548Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:07:09.909Z"
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-2025-38364"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38364.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38364"
title: "maple_tree: fix MA_STATE_PREALLOC flag in mas_preallocate()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmaple_tree: fix MA_STATE_PREALLOC flag in mas_preallocate()\n\nTemporarily clear the preallocation flag when explicitly requesting\nallocations.  Pre-existing allocations are already counted against the\nrequest through mas_node_count_gfp(), but the allocations will not happen\nif the MA_STATE_PREALLOC flag is set.  This flag is meant to avoid\nre-allocating in bulk allocation mode, and to detect issues with\npreallocation calculations.\n\nThe MA_STATE_PREALLOC flag should also always be set on zero allocations\nso that detection of underflow allocations will print a WARN_ON() during\nconsumption.\n\nUser visible effect of this flaw is a WARN_ON() followed by a null pointer\ndereference when subsequent requests for larger number of nodes is\nignored, such as the vma merge retry in mmap_region() caused by drivers\naltering the vma flags (which happens in v6.6, at least)"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"54a611b605901c7d5d05b6b8f5d04a6ceb0962aa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d69cd64bd5af41c6fd409313504089970edaf02f"},{"version":"54a611b605901c7d5d05b6b8f5d04a6ceb0962aa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e63032e66bca1d06e600033f3369ba3db3af0870"},{"version":"54a611b605901c7d5d05b6b8f5d04a6ceb0962aa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cf95f8426f889949b738f51ffcd72884411f3a6a"},{"version":"54a611b605901c7d5d05b6b8f5d04a6ceb0962aa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9e32f4700867abbd5d19abfcf698dbd0d2ce36a4"},{"version":"54a611b605901c7d5d05b6b8f5d04a6ceb0962aa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fba46a5d83ca8decb338722fb4899026d8d9ead2"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1"},{"version":"6.1.146","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.99","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.36","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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