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CVE-2025-38424

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CVE-2025-38424

Published: Jul 25, 2025

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf: Fix sample vs do_exit() Baisheng Gao reported an ARM64 crash, which Mark decoded as being a synchronous external abort -- most likely due to trying to access MMIO in bad ways. The crash further shows perf trying to do a user stack sample while in exit_mmap()'s tlb_finish_mmu() -- i.e. while tearing down the address space it is trying to access. It turns out that we stop perf after we tear down the userspace mm; a receipie for disaster, since perf likes to access userspace for various reasons. Flip this order by moving up where we stop perf in do_exit(). Additionally, harden PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN and PERF_SAMPLE_STACK_USER to abort when the current task does not have an mm (exit_mm() makes sure to set current->mm = NULL; before commencing with the actual teardown). Such that CPU wide events don't trip on this same problem.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
c5ebcedb566ef17bda7b02686e0d658a7bb42ee7 - < 7b8f3c72175c6a63a95cf2e219f8b78e2baad34e
affected
c5ebcedb566ef17bda7b02686e0d658a7bb42ee7 - < 507c9a595bad3abd107c6a8857d7fd125d89f386
affected
c5ebcedb566ef17bda7b02686e0d658a7bb42ee7 - < a9f6aab7910a0ef2895797f15c947f6d1053160f
affected
c5ebcedb566ef17bda7b02686e0d658a7bb42ee7 - < 975ffddfa2e19823c719459d2364fcaa17673964
affected
c5ebcedb566ef17bda7b02686e0d658a7bb42ee7 - < 2ee6044a693735396bb47eeaba1ac3ae26c1c99b

+3 more versions

Linux

Linux

affected
3.7
unaffected
0 - < 3.7
unaffected
5.4.295 - <= 5.4.*
unaffected
5.10.239 - <= 5.10.*
unaffected
5.15.186 - <= 5.15.*

+5 more versions

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