CVE-2025-38364

MEDIUM

MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 36/100

Published: 2025-07-25 Modified: 2026-11-05 First seen: 2026-11-05 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local

AC: Low

PR: Low

UI: None

S: Unchanged

C: None

I: None

A: High

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: maple_tree: fix MA_STATE_PREALLOC flag in mas_preallocate() Temporarily clear the preallocation flag when explicitly requesting allocations. Pre-existing allocations are already counted against the request through mas_node_count_gfp(), but the allocations will not happen if the MA_STATE_PREALLOC flag is set. This flag is meant to avoid re-allocating in bulk allocation mode, and to detect issues with preallocation calculations. The MA_STATE_PREALLOC flag should also always be set on zero allocations so that detection of underflow allocations will print a WARN_ON() during consumption. User visible effect of this flaw is a WARN_ON() followed by a null pointer dereference when subsequent requests for larger number of nodes is ignored, such as the vma merge retry in mmap_region() caused by drivers altering the vma flags (which happens in v6.6, at least)

Weakness Classification (1)

CWE-476

Affected Software (11)

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	54a611b605901c7d5d05b6b8f5d04a6ceb0962aa < d69cd64bd5af41c6fd409313504089970edaf02f
Linux	Linux	54a611b605901c7d5d05b6b8f5d04a6ceb0962aa < e63032e66bca1d06e600033f3369ba3db3af0870
Linux	Linux	54a611b605901c7d5d05b6b8f5d04a6ceb0962aa < cf95f8426f889949b738f51ffcd72884411f3a6a
Linux	Linux	54a611b605901c7d5d05b6b8f5d04a6ceb0962aa < 9e32f4700867abbd5d19abfcf698dbd0d2ce36a4
Linux	Linux	54a611b605901c7d5d05b6b8f5d04a6ceb0962aa < fba46a5d83ca8decb338722fb4899026d8d9ead2
Linux	Linux	6.1
debian	debian_linux	11.0
linux	linux_kernel	6.1 – 6.1.146
linux	linux_kernel	6.16
linux	linux_kernel	6.16
linux	linux_kernel	6.16