CVE-2025-22090 — Incomplete Cleanup in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV7.1OSV5.9
EPSS
0.1%
top 74.36%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedApr 16
Latest updateJan 9
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
x86/mm/pat: Fix VM_PAT handling when fork() fails in copy_page_range()
If track_pfn_copy() fails, we already added the dst VMA to the maple
tree. As fork() fails, we'll cleanup the maple tree, and stumble over
the dst VMA for which we neither performed any reservation nor copied
any page tables.
Consequently untrack_pfn() will see VM_PAT and try obtaining the
PAT information from the page table -- which fails because the page…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages9 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux2ab640379a0ab4cef746ced1d7e04a0941774bcb — a6623712ba8449876f0b3de9462831523fb851e4+6