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CVE-2025-38257

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CVE-2025-38257

Published: Jul 9, 2025

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390/pkey: Prevent overflow in size calculation for memdup_user() Number of apqn target list entries contained in 'nr_apqns' variable is determined by userspace via an ioctl call so the result of the product in calculation of size passed to memdup_user() may overflow. In this case the actual size of the allocated area and the value describing it won't be in sync leading to various types of unpredictable behaviour later. Use a proper memdup_array_user() helper which returns an error if an overflow is detected. Note that it is different from when nr_apqns is initially zero - that case is considered valid and should be handled in subsequent pkey_handler implementations. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org).

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
f2bbc96e7cfad3891b7bf9bd3e566b9b7ab4553d - < ad1bdd24a02d5a8d119af8e4cd50933780a6d29f
affected
f2bbc96e7cfad3891b7bf9bd3e566b9b7ab4553d - < faa1ab4a23c42e34dc000ef4977b751d94d5148c
affected
f2bbc96e7cfad3891b7bf9bd3e566b9b7ab4553d - < 88f3869649edbc4a13f6c2877091f81cd5a50f05
affected
f2bbc96e7cfad3891b7bf9bd3e566b9b7ab4553d - < f855b119e62b004a5044ed565f2a2b368c4d3f16
affected
f2bbc96e7cfad3891b7bf9bd3e566b9b7ab4553d - < 73483ca7e07a5e39bdf612eec9d3d293e8bef649

+1 more versions

Linux

Linux

affected
5.4
unaffected
0 - < 5.4
unaffected
5.15.187 - <= 5.15.*
unaffected
6.1.143 - <= 6.1.*
unaffected
6.6.96 - <= 6.6.*

+3 more versions

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