CVE-2025-38212
Published: Jul 4, 2025
Modified: May 12, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipc: fix to protect IPCS lookups using RCU syzbot reported that it discovered a use-after-free vulnerability, [0] [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ idr_for_each() is protected by rwsem, but this is not enough. If it is not protected by RCU read-critical region, when idr_for_each() calls radix_tree_node_free() through call_rcu() to free the radix_tree_node structure, the node will be freed immediately, and when reading the next node in radix_tree_for_each_slot(), the already freed memory may be read. Therefore, we need to add code to make sure that idr_for_each() is protected within the RCU read-critical region when we call it in shm_destroy_orphaned().
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected b34a6b1da371ed8af1221459a18c67970f7e3d53 - < 5f1e1573bf103303944fd7225559de5d8297539caffected b34a6b1da371ed8af1221459a18c67970f7e3d53 - < b968ba8bfd9f90914957bbbd815413bf6a98eca7affected b34a6b1da371ed8af1221459a18c67970f7e3d53 - < 74bc813d11c30e28fc5261dc877cca662ccfac68affected b34a6b1da371ed8af1221459a18c67970f7e3d53 - < 78297d53d3878d43c1d627d20cd09f611fa4b91daffected b34a6b1da371ed8af1221459a18c67970f7e3d53 - < 5180561afff8e0f029073c8c8117c95c6512d1f9+3 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 3.1unaffected 0 - < 3.1unaffected 5.4.295 - <= 5.4.*unaffected 5.10.239 - <= 5.10.*unaffected 5.15.186 - <= 5.15.*+5 more versions |
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