🛡️ UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40009
⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/proc/task_mmu: check p->vec_buf for NULL When the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl is invoked with vec_len = 0 reaches pagemap_scan_backout_range(), kernel panics with null-ptr-deref: [ 44.936808] Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC KASAN NOPTI [ 44.937797] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007] [ 44.938391] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 2480 Comm: reproducer Not tainted 6.17.0-rc6 #22 PREEMPT(none) [ 44.939062] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 [ 44.939935] RIP: 0010:pagemap_scan_thp_entry.isra.0+0x741/0xa80 [ 44.946828] Call Trace: [ 44.947030] [ 44.949219] pagemap_scan_pmd_entry+0xec/0xfa0 [ 44.952593] walk_pmd_range.isra.0+0x302/0x910 [ 44.954069] walk_pud_range.isra.0+0x419/0x790 [ 44.954427] walk_p4d_range+0x41e/0x620 [ 44.954743] walk_pgd_range+0x31e/0x630 [ 44.955057] __walk_page_range+0x160/0x670 [ 44.956883] walk_page_range_mm+0x408/0x980 [ 44.958677] walk_page_range+0x66/0x90 [ 44.958984] do_pagemap_scan+0x28d/0x9c0 [ 44.961833] do_pagemap_cmd+0x59/0x80 [ 44.962484] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x18d/0x210 [ 44.962804] do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x290 [ 44.963111] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e vec_len = 0 in pagemap_scan_init_bounce_buffer() means no buffers are allocated and p->vec_buf remains set to NULL. This breaks an assumption made later in pagemap_scan_backout_range(), that page_region is always allocated for p->vec_buf_index. Fix it by explicitly checking p->vec_buf for NULL before dereferencing. Other sites that might run into same deref-issue are already (directly or transitively) protected by checking p->vec_buf. Note: From PAGEMAP_SCAN man page, it seems vec_len = 0 is valid when no output is requested and it's only the side effects caller is interested in, hence it passes check in pagemap_scan_get_args(). This issue was found by syzkaller.

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-10-20
Updated 2026-06-15
Modified 2026-06-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
linux 6.17.0-6.6
linux-allwinner-5.19
linux-aws 6.17.0-1003.3
linux-aws-5.0
linux-aws-5.11
linux-aws-5.13
linux-aws-5.19
linux-aws-5.3
linux-aws-5.8
linux-aws-6.14
linux-aws-6.2
linux-aws-6.5
linux-aws-6.8 6.8.0-1050.53~22.04.1
linux-aws-fips 6.8.0-1050.53+fips1
linux-azure 6.17.0-1006.6
linux-azure-5.11
linux-azure-5.13
linux-azure-5.19
linux-azure-5.3
linux-azure-5.8
linux-azure-6.11
linux-azure-6.14
linux-azure-6.2
linux-azure-6.5
linux-azure-6.8 6.8.0-1051.57~22.04.1
linux-azure-edge
linux-azure-fde
linux-azure-fde-5.19
linux-azure-fde-6.14
linux-azure-fde-6.17
linux-azure-fde-6.2
linux-azure-fde-6.8
linux-azure-fips 6.8.0-1052.58+fips1
linux-azure-nvidia
linux-azure-nvidia-6.14
linux-bluefield
linux-fips 6.8.0-106.106+fips1
linux-gcp 6.17.0-1003.3
linux-gcp-5.11
linux-gcp-5.13
linux-gcp-5.19
linux-gcp-5.3
linux-gcp-5.8
linux-gcp-6.11
linux-gcp-6.14
linux-gcp-6.2
linux-gcp-6.5
linux-gcp-6.8 6.8.0-1052.55~22.04.1
linux-gcp-fips 6.8.0-1052.55+fips1
linux-gke 6.8.0-1048.53
linux-gke-4.15
linux-gke-5.15
linux-gke-5.4
linux-gkeop 6.8.0-1035.38
linux-gkeop-5.15
linux-gkeop-5.4
linux-hwe
linux-hwe-5.11
linux-hwe-5.13
linux-hwe-5.19
linux-hwe-5.8
linux-hwe-6.11
linux-hwe-6.14
linux-hwe-6.2
linux-hwe-6.5
linux-hwe-6.8 6.8.0-106.106~22.04.1
linux-hwe-edge
linux-ibm 6.8.0-1049.49
linux-ibm-6.8 6.8.0-1049.49~22.04.1
linux-intel-5.13
linux-intel-iot-realtime
linux-lowlatency 6.8.0-106.106.1
linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19
linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11
linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2
linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5
linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8 6.8.0-106.106.1~22.04.1
linux-nvidia 6.8.0-1049.52
linux-nvidia-6.11
linux-nvidia-6.2
linux-nvidia-6.5
linux-nvidia-6.8 6.8.0-1049.52~22.04.1
linux-nvidia-lowlatency 6.8.0-1049.52.1
linux-nvidia-tegra 6.8.0-1020.20
linux-oem
linux-oem-5.10
linux-oem-5.13
linux-oem-5.14
linux-oem-5.17
linux-oem-5.6
linux-oem-6.0
linux-oem-6.1
linux-oem-6.11
linux-oem-6.14
linux-oem-6.5
linux-oem-6.8
linux-oracle 6.17.0-1003.3
linux-oracle-5.0
linux-oracle-5.11
linux-oracle-5.13
linux-oracle-5.3
linux-oracle-5.8
linux-oracle-6.14
linux-oracle-6.5
linux-oracle-6.8 6.8.0-1047.48~22.04.1
linux-raspi 6.17.0-1004.4
linux-raspi-realtime 6.8.0-2040.41
linux-raspi2
linux-realtime 6.17.0-1002.3
linux-realtime-6.14
linux-realtime-6.8 6.8.1-1045.46~22.04.1
linux-riscv 6.17.0-6.6.1
linux-riscv-5.11
linux-riscv-5.19
linux-riscv-5.8
linux-riscv-6.14
linux-riscv-6.5
linux-riscv-6.8 6.8.0-106.106~22.04.1
linux-starfive-5.19
linux-starfive-6.2
linux-starfive-6.5
linux-xilinx 6.8.0-1028.29

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