CVE-2025-38595
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2025
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
xen: fix UAF in dmabuf_exp_from_pages()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xen: fix UAF in dmabuf_exp_from_pages() [dma_buf_fd() fixes; no preferences regarding the tree it goes through - up to xen folks] As soon as we'd inserted a file reference into descriptor table, another thread could close it. That's fine for the case when all we are doing is returning that descriptor to userland (it's a race, but it's a userland race and there's nothing the kernel can do about it). However, if we follow fd_install() with any kind of access to objects that would be destroyed on close (be it the struct file itself or anything destroyed by its ->release()), we have a UAF. dma_buf_fd() is a combination of reserving a descriptor and fd_install(). gntdev dmabuf_exp_from_pages() calls it and then proceeds to access the objects destroyed on close - starting with gntdev_dmabuf itself. Fix that by doing reserving descriptor before anything else and do fd_install() only when everything had been set up.
Scoped product and version facts
Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
unaffected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a240d6e42e28c34fdc34b3a98ca838a31c939901 | affected | git | ba8bc644f168509c16d48444991de7cfea3f12ec | Unavailable | None listed |
| a240d6e42e28c34fdc34b3a98ca838a31c939901 | affected | git | e5907885260401bba300d4d18d79875c05b82651 | Unavailable | None listed |
| a240d6e42e28c34fdc34b3a98ca838a31c939901 | affected | git | 3edfd2353f301bfffd5ee41066e37320a59ccc2d | Unavailable | None listed |
| a240d6e42e28c34fdc34b3a98ca838a31c939901 | affected | git | d59d49af4aeed9a81e673e37c26c6a3bacf1a181 | Unavailable | None listed |
| a240d6e42e28c34fdc34b3a98ca838a31c939901 | affected | git | 532c8b51b3a8676cbf533a291f8156774f30ea87 | Unavailable | None listed |
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
affected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.19 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 4.19 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 6.6.160 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.6.* | None listed |
| 6.12.42 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.12.* | None listed |
| 6.15.10 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.15.* | None listed |
| 6.16.1 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.16.* | None listed |
| 6.17 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |