CVE-2025-38595
Published: Aug 19, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xen: fix UAF in dmabuf_exp_from_pages() [dma_buf_fd() fixes; no preferences regarding the tree it goes through - up to xen folks] As soon as we'd inserted a file reference into descriptor table, another thread could close it. That's fine for the case when all we are doing is returning that descriptor to userland (it's a race, but it's a userland race and there's nothing the kernel can do about it). However, if we follow fd_install() with any kind of access to objects that would be destroyed on close (be it the struct file itself or anything destroyed by its ->release()), we have a UAF. dma_buf_fd() is a combination of reserving a descriptor and fd_install(). gntdev dmabuf_exp_from_pages() calls it and then proceeds to access the objects destroyed on close - starting with gntdev_dmabuf itself. Fix that by doing reserving descriptor before anything else and do fd_install() only when everything had been set up.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected a240d6e42e28c34fdc34b3a98ca838a31c939901 - < e5907885260401bba300d4d18d79875c05b82651affected a240d6e42e28c34fdc34b3a98ca838a31c939901 - < 3edfd2353f301bfffd5ee41066e37320a59ccc2daffected a240d6e42e28c34fdc34b3a98ca838a31c939901 - < d59d49af4aeed9a81e673e37c26c6a3bacf1a181affected a240d6e42e28c34fdc34b3a98ca838a31c939901 - < 532c8b51b3a8676cbf533a291f8156774f30ea87 |
Linux | Linux | affected 4.19unaffected 0 - < 4.19unaffected 6.12.42 - <= 6.12.*unaffected 6.15.10 - <= 6.15.*unaffected 6.16.1 - <= 6.16.*+1 more versions |
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