Vulnerability details

CVE-2025-38447

Linux Linux

mm/rmap: fix potential out-of-bounds page table access during batched unmap

CVSS 3.1
7.8High

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/rmap: fix potential out-of-bounds page table access during batched unmap As pointed out by David[1], the batched unmap logic in try_to_unmap_one() may read past the end of a PTE table when a large folio's PTE mappings are not fully contained within a single page table. While this scenario might be rare, an issue triggerable from userspace must be fixed regardless of its likelihood. This patch fixes the out-of-bounds access by refactoring the logic into a new helper, folio_unmap_pte_batch(). The new helper correctly calculates the safe batch size by capping the scan at both the VMA and PMD boundaries. To simplify the code, it also supports partial batching (i.e., any number of pages from 1 up to the calculated safe maximum), as there is no strong reason to special-case for fully mapped folios.

CVSS scores

ScoreVersionSourceVector
7.8High 3.1 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (Linux) CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsSource
Linux Linux 6.15 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 354dffd29575cdf13154e8fb787322354aa9efc4 ≤ v < 510fe9c15d07e765d96be9a9dc37e5057c6c09f4 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 354dffd29575cdf13154e8fb787322354aa9efc4 ≤ v < ddd05742b45b083975a0855ef6ebbf88cf1f532a CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)

References and advisories

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Details

Published
2025-07-25
Last updated
2026-08-05
State
Published
Assigner (CNA)
Linux

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.18%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
8.5%
Percentile (among all CVEs)

Weaknesses (CWE)

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