CVE-2025-38564 — Detection of Error Condition Without Action in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 97.56%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedAug 19
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
perf/core: Handle buffer mapping fail correctly in perf_mmap()
After successful allocation of a buffer or a successful attachment to an
existing buffer perf_mmap() tries to map the buffer read only into the page
table. If that fails, the already set up page table entries are zapped, but
the other perf specific side effects of that failure are not handled. The
calling code just cleans up the VMA and does not invoke perf_mmap_cl…
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 Packages6 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxb709eb872e19a19607bbb6d2975bc264d59735cf — 831e1c90a5d72e6977a57c44f47c46b73a438695+3
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
2GHSA▶
GHSA-m482-hf2v-9c7j: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
perf/core: Handle buffer mapping fail correctly in perf_mmap()
After successful↗2025-08-19
OSV▶
CVE-2025-38564: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf/core: Handle buffer mapping fail correctly in perf_mmap() After successful al↗2025-08-19