CVE-2025-38212

ipc: fix to protect IPCS lookups using RCU

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Jul 4, 2025
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ipc: fix to protect IPCS lookups using RCU

syzbot reported that it discovered a use-after-free vulnerability, [0]

[0]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/67af13f8.050a0220.21dd3.0038.GAE@google.com/

idr_for_each() is protected by rwsem, but this is not enough. If it is not protected by RCU read-critical region, when idr_for_each() calls radix_tree_node_free() through call_rcu() to free the radix_tree_node structure, the node will be freed immediately, and when reading the next node in radix_tree_for_each_slot(), the already freed memory may be read.

Therefore, we need to add code to make sure that idr_for_each() is protected within the RCU read-critical region when we call it in shm_destroy_orphaned().

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • b34a6b1da371ed8af1221459a18c67970f7e3d53 to before 5f1e1573bf103303944fd7225559de5d8297539cAffected
  • b34a6b1da371ed8af1221459a18c67970f7e3d53 to before b968ba8bfd9f90914957bbbd815413bf6a98eca7Affected
  • b34a6b1da371ed8af1221459a18c67970f7e3d53 to before 74bc813d11c30e28fc5261dc877cca662ccfac68Affected
  • b34a6b1da371ed8af1221459a18c67970f7e3d53 to before 78297d53d3878d43c1d627d20cd09f611fa4b91dAffected
  • b34a6b1da371ed8af1221459a18c67970f7e3d53 to before 5180561afff8e0f029073c8c8117c95c6512d1f9Affected
  • b34a6b1da371ed8af1221459a18c67970f7e3d53 to before 68c173ea138b66d7dd1fd980c9bc578a18e11884Affected
  • b34a6b1da371ed8af1221459a18c67970f7e3d53 to before b0b6bf90ce2699a574b3683e22c44d0dcdd7a057Affected
  • b34a6b1da371ed8af1221459a18c67970f7e3d53 to before d66adabe91803ef34a8b90613c81267b5ded1472Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 3.1Affected
  • before 3.1Not affected
  • 5.4.295 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.239 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.186 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.142 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.95 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.35 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.15.4 through 6.15.*Not affected
  • 6.16 and laterNot affected

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