CVE-2025-40271 (GCVE-0-2025-40271)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-06 21:50 – Updated: 2026-06-16 19:37
VLAI
Title
fs/proc: fix uaf in proc_readdir_de()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/proc: fix uaf in proc_readdir_de() Pde is erased from subdir rbtree through rb_erase(), but not set the node to EMPTY, which may result in uaf access. We should use RB_CLEAR_NODE() set the erased node to EMPTY, then pde_subdir_next() will return NULL to avoid uaf access. We found an uaf issue while using stress-ng testing, need to run testcase getdent and tun in the same time. The steps of the issue is as follows: 1) use getdent to traverse dir /proc/pid/net/dev_snmp6/, and current pde is tun3; 2) in the [time windows] unregister netdevice tun3 and tun2, and erase them from rbtree. erase tun3 first, and then erase tun2. the pde(tun2) will be released to slab; 3) continue to getdent process, then pde_subdir_next() will return pde(tun2) which is released, it will case uaf access. CPU 0 | CPU 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- traverse dir /proc/pid/net/dev_snmp6/ | unregister_netdevice(tun->dev) //tun3 tun2 sys_getdents64() | iterate_dir() | proc_readdir() | proc_readdir_de() | snmp6_unregister_dev() pde_get(de); | proc_remove() read_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock); | remove_proc_subtree() | write_lock(&proc_subdir_lock); [time window] | rb_erase(&root->subdir_node, &parent->subdir); | write_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock); read_lock(&proc_subdir_lock); | next = pde_subdir_next(de); | pde_put(de); | de = next; //UAF | rbtree of dev_snmp6 | pde(tun3) / \ NULL pde(tun2)
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 710585d4922fd315f2cada8fbe550ae8ed23e994 , < 1d1596d68a6f11d28f677eedf6cf5b17dbfeb491 (git)
Affected: 710585d4922fd315f2cada8fbe550ae8ed23e994 , < c81d0385500446efe48c305bbb83d47f2ae23a50 (git)
Affected: 710585d4922fd315f2cada8fbe550ae8ed23e994 , < 4cba73c4c89219beef7685a47374bf88b1022369 (git)
Affected: 710585d4922fd315f2cada8fbe550ae8ed23e994 , < 6f2482745e510ae1dacc9b090194b9c5f918d774 (git)
Affected: 710585d4922fd315f2cada8fbe550ae8ed23e994 , < 67272c11f379d9aa5e0f6b16286b9d89b3f76046 (git)
Affected: 710585d4922fd315f2cada8fbe550ae8ed23e994 , < 623bb26127fb581a741e880e1e1a47d79aecb6f8 (git)
Affected: 710585d4922fd315f2cada8fbe550ae8ed23e994 , < 03de7ff197a3d0e17d0d5c58fdac99a63cba8110 (git)
Affected: 710585d4922fd315f2cada8fbe550ae8ed23e994 , < 895b4c0c79b092d732544011c3cecaf7322c36a1 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.19
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.19 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.302 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.247 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.197 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.159 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.117 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.59 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.9 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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Siemens RUGGEDCOM RST2428P Affected: 0 , < V4.0 (custom)
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