CVE-2025-38008 — Race Condition in Linux
Severity
4.7MEDIUMNVD
OSV7.8OSV3.2
EPSS
0.1%
top 84.60%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJun 18
Latest updateMar 25
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/page_alloc: fix race condition in unaccepted memory handling
The page allocator tracks the number of zones that have unaccepted memory
using static_branch_enc/dec() and uses that static branch in hot paths to
determine if it needs to deal with unaccepted memory.
Borislav and Thomas pointed out that the tracking is racy: operations on
static_branch are not serialized against adding/removing unaccepted pages
to/from the zone…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.0 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages14 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxdcdfdd40fa82b6704d2841938e5c8ec3051eb0d6 — 98fdd2f612e949c652693f6df00442c81037776d+4