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CVE-2025-40272

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Record status
Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2025
Source publication
Source updated
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Source snapshot
cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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CNA source text (English)

mm/secretmem: fix use-after-free race in fault handler

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/secretmem: fix use-after-free race in fault handler When a page fault occurs in a secret memory file created with `memfd_secret(2)`, the kernel will allocate a new folio for it, mark the underlying page as not-present in the direct map, and add it to the file mapping. If two tasks cause a fault in the same page concurrently, both could end up allocating a folio and removing the page from the direct map, but only one would succeed in adding the folio to the file mapping. The task that failed undoes the effects of its attempt by (a) freeing the folio again and (b) putting the page back into the direct map. However, by doing these two operations in this order, the page becomes available to the allocator again before it is placed back in the direct mapping. If another task attempts to allocate the page between (a) and (b), and the kernel tries to access it via the direct map, it would result in a supervisor not-present page fault. Fix the ordering to restore the direct map before the folio is freed.

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)
1507f51255c9ff07d75909a84e7c0d7f3c4b2f49affectedgitbb1c19636aedae39360e6fdbcaef4f2bcff25785UnavailableNone listed
1507f51255c9ff07d75909a84e7c0d7f3c4b2f49affectedgit1e4643d6628edf9c0047b1f8f5bc574665025acbUnavailableNone listed
1507f51255c9ff07d75909a84e7c0d7f3c4b2f49affectedgit42d486d35a4143cc37fc72ee66edc99d942dd367UnavailableNone listed
1507f51255c9ff07d75909a84e7c0d7f3c4b2f49affectedgit52f2d5cf33de9a8f5e72bbb0ed38282ae0bc4649UnavailableNone listed
1507f51255c9ff07d75909a84e7c0d7f3c4b2f49affectedgit4444767e625da46009fc94a453fd1967b80ba047UnavailableNone listed
1507f51255c9ff07d75909a84e7c0d7f3c4b2f49affectedgit6f86d0534fddfbd08687fa0f01479d4226bc3c3dUnavailableNone 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)
5.14affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver5.14UnavailableNone listed
5.15.197unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.15.*None listed
6.1.159unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.1.*None listed
6.6.117unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.6.*None listed
6.12.59unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.12.*None listed
6.17.9unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.17.*None listed
6.18unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed