CVE-2025-38447

Technical Description

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

mm/rmap: fix potential out-of-bounds page table access during batched unmap

As pointed out by David[1], the batched unmap logic in

try_to_unmap_one() may read past the end of a PTE table when a large

folio's PTE mappings are not fully contained within a single page

table.

While this scenario might be rare, an issue triggerable from userspace

must be fixed regardless of its likelihood. This patch fixes the

out-of-bounds access by refactoring the logic into a new helper,

folio_unmap_pte_batch().

The new helper correctly calculates the safe batch size by capping the

scan at both the VMA and PMD boundaries. To simplify the code, it also

supports partial batching (i.e., any number of pages from 1 up to the

calculated safe maximum), as there is no strong reason to special-case

for fully mapped folios.

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

References