CVE-2025-38129 (GCVE-0-2025-38129)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-03 08:35 – Updated: 2026-08-05 11:59
VLAI
Title
page_pool: Fix use-after-free in page_pool_recycle_in_ring
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: page_pool: Fix use-after-free in page_pool_recycle_in_ring syzbot reported a uaf in page_pool_recycle_in_ring: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in lock_release+0x151/0xa30 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5862 Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880286045a0 by task syz.0.284/6943 CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6943 Comm: syz.0.284 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc3-syzkaller-gdfa94ce54f41 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024 Call Trace: <TASK> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:120 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline] print_report+0x169/0x550 mm/kasan/report.c:489 kasan_report+0x143/0x180 mm/kasan/report.c:602 lock_release+0x151/0xa30 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5862 __raw_spin_unlock_bh include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:165 [inline] _raw_spin_unlock_bh+0x1b/0x40 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:210 spin_unlock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:396 [inline] ptr_ring_produce_bh include/linux/ptr_ring.h:164 [inline] page_pool_recycle_in_ring net/core/page_pool.c:707 [inline] page_pool_put_unrefed_netmem+0x748/0xb00 net/core/page_pool.c:826 page_pool_put_netmem include/net/page_pool/helpers.h:323 [inline] page_pool_put_full_netmem include/net/page_pool/helpers.h:353 [inline] napi_pp_put_page+0x149/0x2b0 net/core/skbuff.c:1036 skb_pp_recycle net/core/skbuff.c:1047 [inline] skb_free_head net/core/skbuff.c:1094 [inline] skb_release_data+0x6c4/0x8a0 net/core/skbuff.c:1125 skb_release_all net/core/skbuff.c:1190 [inline] __kfree_skb net/core/skbuff.c:1204 [inline] sk_skb_reason_drop+0x1c9/0x380 net/core/skbuff.c:1242 kfree_skb_reason include/linux/skbuff.h:1263 [inline] __skb_queue_purge_reason include/linux/skbuff.h:3343 [inline] root cause is: page_pool_recycle_in_ring ptr_ring_produce spin_lock(&r->producer_lock); WRITE_ONCE(r->queue[r->producer++], ptr) //recycle last page to pool page_pool_release page_pool_scrub page_pool_empty_ring ptr_ring_consume page_pool_return_page //release all page __page_pool_destroy free_percpu(pool->recycle_stats); free(pool) //free spin_unlock(&r->producer_lock); //pool->ring uaf read recycle_stat_inc(pool, ring); page_pool can be free while page pool recycle the last page in ring. Add producer-lock barrier to page_pool_release to prevent the page pool from being free before all pages have been recycled. recycle_stat_inc() is empty when CONFIG_PAGE_POOL_STATS is not enabled, which will trigger Wempty-body build warning. Add definition for pool stat macro to fix warning.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-06-10 20:41 UTC
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 54/100 over 6618 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: ff7d6b27f894f1469dc51ccb828b7363ccd9799f , < c2c906142293931e33ef4be79ebc36c25c4e21dd (git)
Affected: ff7d6b27f894f1469dc51ccb828b7363ccd9799f , < d69f28ef7cdafdcf37ee310f38b1399e7d05f9a8 (git)
Affected: ff7d6b27f894f1469dc51ccb828b7363ccd9799f , < 1a8c0b61d4cb55c5440583ec9e7f86a730369e32 (git)
Affected: ff7d6b27f894f1469dc51ccb828b7363ccd9799f , < 4914c0a166540e534a0c1d43affd329d95fb56fd (git)
Affected: ff7d6b27f894f1469dc51ccb828b7363ccd9799f , < e869a85acc2e60dc554579b910826a4919d8cd98 (git)
Affected: ff7d6b27f894f1469dc51ccb828b7363ccd9799f , < 4ab8c0f8905c9c4d05e7f437e65a9a365573ff02 (git)
Affected: ff7d6b27f894f1469dc51ccb828b7363ccd9799f , < 271683bb2cf32e5126c592b5d5e6a756fa374fd9 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.18
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.18 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.259 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.198 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.160 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.120 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.34 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.3 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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              "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npage_pool: Fix use-after-free in page_pool_recycle_in_ring\n\nsyzbot reported a uaf in page_pool_recycle_in_ring:\n\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in lock_release+0x151/0xa30 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5862\nRead of size 8 at addr ffff8880286045a0 by task syz.0.284/6943\n\nCPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6943 Comm: syz.0.284 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc3-syzkaller-gdfa94ce54f41 #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]\n dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:120\n print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]\n print_report+0x169/0x550 mm/kasan/report.c:489\n kasan_report+0x143/0x180 mm/kasan/report.c:602\n lock_release+0x151/0xa30 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5862\n __raw_spin_unlock_bh include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:165 [inline]\n _raw_spin_unlock_bh+0x1b/0x40 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:210\n spin_unlock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:396 [inline]\n ptr_ring_produce_bh include/linux/ptr_ring.h:164 [inline]\n page_pool_recycle_in_ring net/core/page_pool.c:707 [inline]\n page_pool_put_unrefed_netmem+0x748/0xb00 net/core/page_pool.c:826\n page_pool_put_netmem include/net/page_pool/helpers.h:323 [inline]\n page_pool_put_full_netmem include/net/page_pool/helpers.h:353 [inline]\n napi_pp_put_page+0x149/0x2b0 net/core/skbuff.c:1036\n skb_pp_recycle net/core/skbuff.c:1047 [inline]\n skb_free_head net/core/skbuff.c:1094 [inline]\n skb_release_data+0x6c4/0x8a0 net/core/skbuff.c:1125\n skb_release_all net/core/skbuff.c:1190 [inline]\n __kfree_skb net/core/skbuff.c:1204 [inline]\n sk_skb_reason_drop+0x1c9/0x380 net/core/skbuff.c:1242\n kfree_skb_reason include/linux/skbuff.h:1263 [inline]\n __skb_queue_purge_reason include/linux/skbuff.h:3343 [inline]\n\nroot cause is:\n\npage_pool_recycle_in_ring\n  ptr_ring_produce\n    spin_lock(\u0026r-\u003eproducer_lock);\n    WRITE_ONCE(r-\u003equeue[r-\u003eproducer++], ptr)\n      //recycle last page to pool\n\t\t\t\tpage_pool_release\n\t\t\t\t  page_pool_scrub\n\t\t\t\t    page_pool_empty_ring\n\t\t\t\t      ptr_ring_consume\n\t\t\t\t      page_pool_return_page  //release all page\n\t\t\t\t  __page_pool_destroy\n\t\t\t\t     free_percpu(pool-\u003erecycle_stats);\n\t\t\t\t     free(pool) //free\n\n     spin_unlock(\u0026r-\u003eproducer_lock); //pool-\u003ering uaf read\n  recycle_stat_inc(pool, ring);\n\npage_pool can be free while page pool recycle the last page in ring.\nAdd producer-lock barrier to page_pool_release to prevent the page\npool from being free before all pages have been recycled.\n\nrecycle_stat_inc() is empty when CONFIG_PAGE_POOL_STATS is not\nenabled, which will trigger Wempty-body build warning. Add definition\nfor pool stat macro to fix warning."
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          "metrics": [
            {
              "cvssV3_1": {
                "baseScore": 7.8,
                "baseSeverity": "HIGH",
                "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                "version": "3.1"
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                  "value": "AV:L - Triggering requires local operations \u2014 creating/tearing down a page_pool-backed netdev (veth NAPI/GRO toggle, XDP detach, `ip link set down`, channel/ring reconfiguration) while freeing socket-queued skbs via close/purge syscalls. A remote peer can supply the packets that populate the pool but cannot initiate `page_pool_destroy()`, so the attack vector is local.\nAC:L - The attacker controls both sides of the race: they create the page pool, park page_pool-backed skbs on their own socket receive queue, then concurrently destroy the pool and purge the queue from another thread. Per-attempt the window is short, but it is entirely attacker-created and repeatable indefinitely (the `page_pool_release_retry` worker re-opens it every DEFER_TIME), with no condition outside the attacker\u0027s influence.\nPR:L - The producer side (`skb_release_data` \u2192 `napi_pp_put_page` \u2192 `page_pool_recycle_in_ring`) needs no privileges at all \u2014 just an ordinary socket. The destroy side needs only CAP_NET_ADMIN inside a network namespace, which any unprivileged user obtains with `unshare -Urn` to create a veth pair and toggle its NAPI/XDP state; no real root in the init namespace is required.\nUI:N - The attacking process performs the pool teardown and the skb free itself from its own threads. No victim action or cooperating process is needed.\nS:U - The freed object and the corruption both live in the host kernel\u0027s own memory; no VM, hypervisor, or IOMMU boundary is crossed.\nC:H - This is a use-after-free on a `kzalloc_node()`-allocated `struct page_pool`, which an attacker can groom and replace with a controlled slab object; the stale `pool-\u003erecycle_stats` dereference then reads attacker-influenced kernel memory, and the lockdep `lock_release` path reads the freed `dep_map`, yielding a kernel-memory disclosure primitive.\nI:H - The racing producer writes into freed memory unconditionally \u2014 `r-\u003equeue[r-\u003eproducer++]` stores a netmem pointer, `r-\u003eproducer` is incremented, and `spin_unlock_bh()` performs a store-release to the freed lock word at a fixed offset in a reallocated object. With `CONFIG_PAGE_POOL_STATS`, `recycle_stat_inc(pool, ring)` additionally increments through a pointer read out of the reallocated object, giving a near-arbitrary write usable for control-flow hijack.\nA:H - The confirmed syzbot outcome is a KASAN slab-use-after-free splat (an oops, and a panic under `panic_on_warn`/`panic_on_oops`); unpoisoned, the stray writes corrupt the slab and the recycled page ends up double-owned, readily producing kernel panics and network-stack breakage."
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            "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T11:59:48.021Z",
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              "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c2c906142293931e33ef4be79ebc36c25c4e21dd"
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              "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/271683bb2cf32e5126c592b5d5e6a756fa374fd9"
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        "assignerShortName": "Linux",
        "cveId": "CVE-2025-38129",
        "datePublished": "2025-07-03T08:35:33.728Z",
        "dateReserved": "2025-04-16T04:51:23.987Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T11:59:48.021Z",
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