maple_tree: fix MA_STATE_PREALLOC flag in mas_preallocate() (Linux Linux)

CVE-2025-38364
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.19 % · percentile 9 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

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)

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 54a611b605901c7d5d05b6b8f5d04a6ceb0962aa < d69cd64bd5af41c6fd409313504089970edaf02f ; affected 54a611b605901c7d5d05b6b8f5d04a6ceb0962aa < e63032e66bca1d06e600033f3369ba3db3af0870 ; affected 54a611b605901c7d5d05b6b8f5d04a6ceb0962aa < cf95f8426f889949b738f51ffcd72884411f3a6a ; affected 54a611b605901c7d5d05b6b8f5d04a6ceb0962aa < 9e32f4700867abbd5d19abfcf698dbd0d2ce36a4 ; affected 54a611b605901c7d5d05b6b8f5d04a6ceb0962aa < fba46a5d83ca8decb338722fb4899026d8d9ead2
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.1 ; unaffected 0 < 6.1 ; unaffected 6.1.146 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.99 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.36 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.15.5 ≤ 6.15.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD