CVE-2025-39941

zram: fix slot write race condition

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Oct 4, 2025
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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Description

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

zram: fix slot write race condition

Parallel concurrent writes to the same zram index result in leaked zsmalloc handles. Schematically we can have something like this:

CPU0 CPU1 zram_slot_lock() zs_free(handle) zram_slot_lock() zram_slot_lock() zs_free(handle) zram_slot_lock()

compress compress handle = zs_malloc() handle = zs_malloc() zram_slot_lock zram_set_handle(handle) zram_slot_lock zram_slot_lock zram_set_handle(handle) zram_slot_lock

Either CPU0 or CPU1 zsmalloc handle will leak because zs_free() is done too early. In fact, we need to reset zram entry right before we set its new handle, all under the same slot lock scope.

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
  • 71268035f5d734ad6373d953298bd5779985497a to before ff750e9f2c4d63854c33967d1646b5e89a9a19a2Affected
  • 71268035f5d734ad6373d953298bd5779985497a to before ce4be9e4307c5a60701ff6e0cafa74caffdc54ceAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.14Affected
  • before 6.14Not affected
  • 6.16.9 through 6.16.*Not affected
  • 6.17 and laterNot affected

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