CVE-2026-64300

perf/aux: Fix page UAF in map_range()

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Jul 25, 2026
Updated
Aug 17, 2026
Reserved
Jul 19, 2026

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Description

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

perf/aux: Fix page UAF in map_range()

map_range() reads rb->aux_pages[], rb->aux_nr_pages and rb->aux_pgoff via perf_mmap_to_page() while holding only event->mmap_mutex. Those fields are serialized by rb->aux_mutex, and mmap_mutex is per event.

Thus, two events sharing one rb via PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_OUTPUT can race rb_alloc_aux() with map_range(), leading to a page-UAF scenario as follows:

CPU 0 CPU 1 ===== ===== rb_alloc_aux() map_range() [1]: allocate rb->aux_pages[0] [2]: rb->aux_nr_pages++ [3]: perf_mmap_to_page() returns rb->aux_pages[0] [4]: map it as VM_PFNMAP [5]: rb->aux_pgoff = 1

munmap the page [6]: free rb->aux_pages[0]

Pages mapped as VM_PFNMAP have no refcount protection, so CPU 1 holds a mapping to a freed physical frame.

Fix this by taking rb->aux_mutex across the page walk in map_range().

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
  • b709eb872e19a19607bbb6d2975bc264d59735cf to before c8b7e113f7b61eef2f017e6329c27c2331058c5aAffected
  • b709eb872e19a19607bbb6d2975bc264d59735cf to before 0cff05bd2186020f8706233e261016d149cc24dbAffected
  • b709eb872e19a19607bbb6d2975bc264d59735cf to before 5948aaf64f81f217a25dcc2bf6c0779bca19566cAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.14Affected
  • before 6.14Not affected
  • 6.18.39 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.4 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

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