CVE-2025-38129

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38129
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38129.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-38129
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-07-03T08:35:33Z
Modified
2026-08-12T03:51:35Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
page_pool: Fix use-after-free in page_pool_recycle_in_ring
Details

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

page_pool: Fix use-after-free in page_pool_recycle_in_ring

syzbot reported a uaf in page_pool_recycle_in_ring:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in lock_release+0x151/0xa30 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5862 Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880286045a0 by task syz.0.284/6943

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6943 Comm: syz.0.284 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc3-syzkaller-gdfa94ce54f41 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024 Call Trace: __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:120 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline] print_report+0x169/0x550 mm/kasan/report.c:489 kasan_report+0x143/0x180 mm/kasan/report.c:602 lock_release+0x151/0xa30 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5862 __raw_spin_unlock_bh include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:165 [inline] _raw_spin_unlock_bh+0x1b/0x40 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:210 spin_unlock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:396 [inline] ptr_ring_produce_bh include/linux/ptr_ring.h:164 [inline] page_pool_recycle_in_ring net/core/page_pool.c:707 [inline] page_pool_put_unrefed_netmem+0x748/0xb00 net/core/page_pool.c:826 page_pool_put_netmem include/net/page_pool/helpers.h:323 [inline] page_pool_put_full_netmem include/net/page_pool/helpers.h:353 [inline] napi_pp_put_page+0x149/0x2b0 net/core/skbuff.c:1036 skb_pp_recycle net/core/skbuff.c:1047 [inline] skb_free_head net/core/skbuff.c:1094 [inline] skb_release_data+0x6c4/0x8a0 net/core/skbuff.c:1125 skb_release_all net/core/skbuff.c:1190 [inline] __kfree_skb net/core/skbuff.c:1204 [inline] sk_skb_reason_drop+0x1c9/0x380 net/core/skbuff.c:1242 kfree_skb_reason include/linux/skbuff.h:1263 [inline] __skb_queue_purge_reason include/linux/skbuff.h:3343 [inline]

root cause is:

page_pool_recycle_in_ring ptr_ring_produce spin_lock(&r->producer_lock); WRITE_ONCE(r->queue[r->producer++], ptr) //recycle last page to pool page_pool_release page_pool_scrub page_pool_empty_ring ptr_ring_consume page_pool_return_page //release all page __page_pool_destroy free_percpu(pool->recycle_stats); free(pool) //free

 spin_unlock(&r->producer_lock); //pool->ring uaf read

recycle_stat_inc(pool, ring);

page_pool can be free while page pool recycle the last page in ring. Add producer-lock barrier to page_pool_release to prevent the page pool from being free before all pages have been recycled.

recycle_stat_inc() is empty when CONFIG_PAGE_POOL_STATS is not enabled, which will trigger Wempty-body build warning. Add definition for pool stat macro to fix warning.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/38xxx/CVE-2025-38129.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
ff7d6b27f894f1469dc51ccb828b7363ccd9799f
Fixed
c2c906142293931e33ef4be79ebc36c25c4e21dd
Fixed
d69f28ef7cdafdcf37ee310f38b1399e7d05f9a8
Fixed
1a8c0b61d4cb55c5440583ec9e7f86a730369e32
Fixed
4914c0a166540e534a0c1d43affd329d95fb56fd
Fixed
e869a85acc2e60dc554579b910826a4919d8cd98
Fixed
4ab8c0f8905c9c4d05e7f437e65a9a365573ff02
Fixed
271683bb2cf32e5126c592b5d5e6a756fa374fd9

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38129.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.18.0
Fixed
5.10.259
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
5.15.198
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.1.160
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.6.120
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.7.0
Fixed
6.12.34
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.15.3

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38129.json"