# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38686"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-04T15:32:40.771Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:33:01.310Z"
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-2025-38686"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38686.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38686"
title: "userfaultfd: fix a crash in UFFDIO_MOVE when PMD is a migration entry"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nuserfaultfd: fix a crash in UFFDIO_MOVE when PMD is a migration entry\n\nWhen UFFDIO_MOVE encounters a migration PMD entry, it proceeds with\nobtaining a folio and accessing it even though the entry is swp_entry_t. \nAdd the missing check and let split_huge_pmd() handle migration entries. \nWhile at it also remove unnecessary folio check.\n\n[surenb@google.com: remove extra folio check, per David]"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"adef440691bab824e39c1b17382322d195e1fab0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bb81c18dbd42650c844e160cafa7cbb20243a96a"},{"version":"adef440691bab824e39c1b17382322d195e1fab0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1202abad7a7ccd28c426d2844771a387b07629a4"},{"version":"adef440691bab824e39c1b17382322d195e1fab0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7f1101a0a181243ad587ececdffc4845f035549f"},{"version":"adef440691bab824e39c1b17382322d195e1fab0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"aba6faec0103ed8f169be8dce2ead41fcb689446"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.8"},{"version":"6.12.43","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.16.*"},{"version":"6.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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