Race Condition Affecting perf package, versions <0:4.18.0-553.69.1.el8_10


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Rocky Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ROCKY8-PERF-12556701
  • published9 Sept 2025
  • disclosed28 Jun 2025

Introduced: 28 Jun 2025

CVE-2025-38085  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Rocky-Linux:8 perf to version 0:4.18.0-553.69.1.el8_10 or higher.
This issue was patched in RLSA-2025:13589.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perf package and not the perf package as distributed by Rocky-Linux. See How to fix? for Rocky-Linux:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/hugetlb: fix huge_pmd_unshare() vs GUP-fast race

huge_pmd_unshare() drops a reference on a page table that may have previously been shared across processes, potentially turning it into a normal page table used in another process in which unrelated VMAs can afterwards be installed.

If this happens in the middle of a concurrent gup_fast(), gup_fast() could end up walking the page tables of another process. While I don't see any way in which that immediately leads to kernel memory corruption, it is really weird and unexpected.

Fix it with an explicit broadcast IPI through tlb_remove_table_sync_one(), just like we do in khugepaged when removing page tables for a THP collapse.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1