CVE-2025-21696

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21696
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https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-21696.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-21696
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Published
2025-02-12T14:15:32Z
Modified
2025-10-01T20:18:21Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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

mm: clear uffd-wp PTE/PMD state on mremap()

When mremap()ing a memory region previously registered with userfaultfd as write-protected but without UFFDFEATUREEVENTREMAP, an inconsistency in flag clearing leads to a mismatch between the vma flags (which have uffd-wp cleared) and the pte/pmd flags (which do not have uffd-wp cleared). This mismatch causes a subsequent mprotect(PROTWRITE) to trigger a warning in pagetablecheckpteflags() due to setting the pte to writable while uffd-wp is still set.

Fix this by always explicitly clearing the uffd-wp pte/pmd flags on any such mremap() so that the values are consistent with the existing clearing of VMUFFDWP. Be careful to clear the logical flag regardless of its physical form; a PTE bit, a swap PTE bit, or a PTE marker. Cover PTE, huge PMD and hugetlb paths.

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Affected packages