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CVE-2025-38614

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Identifier year (not publication year)
2025
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cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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eventpoll: Fix semi-unbounded recursion

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: eventpoll: Fix semi-unbounded recursion Ensure that epoll instances can never form a graph deeper than EP_MAX_NESTS+1 links. Currently, ep_loop_check_proc() ensures that the graph is loop-free and does some recursion depth checks, but those recursion depth checks don't limit the depth of the resulting tree for two reasons: - They don't look upwards in the tree. - If there are multiple downwards paths of different lengths, only one of the paths is actually considered for the depth check since commit 28d82dc1c4ed ("epoll: limit paths"). Essentially, the current recursion depth check in ep_loop_check_proc() just serves to prevent it from recursing too deeply while checking for loops. A more thorough check is done in reverse_path_check() after the new graph edge has already been created; this checks, among other things, that no paths going upwards from any non-epoll file with a length of more than 5 edges exist. However, this check does not apply to non-epoll files. As a result, it is possible to recurse to a depth of at least roughly 500, tested on v6.15. (I am unsure if deeper recursion is possible; and this may have changed with commit 8c44dac8add7 ("eventpoll: Fix priority inversion problem").) To fix it: 1. In ep_loop_check_proc(), note the subtree depth of each visited node, and use subtree depths for the total depth calculation even when a subtree has already been visited. 2. Add ep_get_upwards_depth_proc() for similarly determining the maximum depth of an upwards walk. 3. In ep_loop_check(), use these values to limit the total path length between epoll nodes to EP_MAX_NESTS edges.

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
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
22bacca48a1755f79b7e0f192ddb9fbb7fc6e64eaffectedgit71379495ab70eaba19224bd71b5b9b399eb85e04UnavailableNone listed
22bacca48a1755f79b7e0f192ddb9fbb7fc6e64eaffectedgit1b13b033062824495554e836a1ff5f85ccf6b039UnavailableNone listed
22bacca48a1755f79b7e0f192ddb9fbb7fc6e64eaffectedgit2a0c0c974bea9619c6f41794775ae4b97530e0e6UnavailableNone listed
22bacca48a1755f79b7e0f192ddb9fbb7fc6e64eaffectedgit7a2125962c42d5336ca0495a9ce4cb38a63e9161UnavailableNone listed
22bacca48a1755f79b7e0f192ddb9fbb7fc6e64eaffectedgitea5f97dbdcb1651581a22bd10afd2f0dd9dc11d6UnavailableNone listed
22bacca48a1755f79b7e0f192ddb9fbb7fc6e64eaffectedgit3542c90797bc3ab83ebab54b737d751cf3682036UnavailableNone listed
22bacca48a1755f79b7e0f192ddb9fbb7fc6e64eaffectedgitf2e467a48287c868818085aa35389a224d226732UnavailableNone listed
8216e1a0d47cae06a75c42346f19dffe14e42d57affectedgitUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
28a92748aa4bc57d35e7b079498b0ac2e7610a37affectedgitUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
7eebcd4792c5a341559aed327b6afecbb1c46402affectedgitUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0eccd188cfeaf857a26f2d72941d27d298cf6a54affectedgitUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
a72affdbb09f3f24f64ffcbbdf62c2e57c58f379affectedgitUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
2.6.32.30affectedsemver2.6.33UnavailableNone listed
2.6.33.8affectedsemver2.6.34UnavailableNone listed
2.6.34.10affectedsemver2.6.35UnavailableNone listed
2.6.35.12affectedsemver2.6.36UnavailableNone listed
2.6.37.3affectedsemver2.6.38UnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
2.6.38affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver2.6.38UnavailableNone listed
5.15.190unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.15.*None listed
6.1.149unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.1.*None listed
6.6.103unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.6.*None listed
6.12.43unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.12.*None listed
6.15.11unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.15.*None listed
6.16.1unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.16.*None listed
6.17unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed