CVE-2025-39941

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Schematically we can have something like this:\n\nCPU0 CPU1\nzram_slot_lock()\nzs_free(handle)\nzram_slot_lock()\n\t\t\t\tzram_slot_lock()\n\t\t\t\tzs_free(handle)\n\t\t\t\tzram_slot_lock()\n\ncompress\t\t\tcompress\nhandle = zs_malloc()\t\thandle = zs_malloc()\nzram_slot_lock\nzram_set_handle(handle)\nzram_slot_lock\n\t\t\t\tzram_slot_lock\n\t\t\t\tzram_set_handle(handle)\n\t\t\t\tzram_slot_lock\n\nEither CPU0 or CPU1 zsmalloc handle will leak because zs_free() is done\ntoo early. In fact, we need to reset zram entry right before we set its\nnew handle, all under the same slot lock scope."}], "metrics": [{"cvssV3_1": {"version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 7.8, "baseSeverity": "HIGH"}, "scenarios": [{"lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - The vulnerable code is the zram block-device write path (`zram_submit_bio` \u2192 `zram_write_page`), reached only through local block I/O \u2014 writes to /dev/zramN, a zram-backed filesystem, or zram swap. There is no network-facing consumer of this path.\nAC:L - The attacker controls both sides of the race: two threads issuing overlapping O_DIRECT or sub-page writes to the same 4 KiB index in a loop, with the window widened by the compress/zs_malloc stage and further by `zram_bvec_write_partial()`'s read-modify-write. The reporter reproduced it with an ordinary fio/blktests workload, and no attacker-uncontrollable condition is involved.\nPR:L - No capability check exists on the write path; the attacker only needs write access to a zram-backed device or filesystem, which unprivileged users routinely have on the dominant zram deployments (Android/ChromeOS swap, systemd zram-generator, embedded/automotive zram-backed /tmp, /var, or overlay upper dirs), or via membership in the `disk` group. Real root in the init namespace is not required.\nUI:N - The attacker's own two threads create and win the race entirely on their own. No victim action, mount, or file-open by another user is needed.\nS:U - The corruption is confined to the zram driver's slot table and zsmalloc pool within the kernel's own security authority. No VM, IOMMU, or sandbox boundary is crossed.\nC:H - The flag/handle desync yields two distinct kernel-memory disclosures into userspace-readable pages: a sticky ZRAM_SAME slot holding a real handle fills a whole 4 KiB page with a raw kernel heap pointer, and a sticky ZRAM_HUGE slot holding a small compressed object makes `read_incompressible_page()` `copy_page()` up to ~4 KiB of adjacent kernel memory past the end of the zspage.\nI:H - The race corrupts kernel slot metadata (handle, ZRAM_SAME/ZRAM_HUGE flags, obj_size) and the pool accounting counters, so stored page contents are silently replaced by kernel pointers or out-of-bounds heap data \u2014 corrupting file blocks or swapped-out anonymous pages belonging to other, potentially privileged, processes.\nA:H - `zs_obj_read_begin(pool, handle, NULL)` on a desynced ZRAM_HUGE slot whose object spans two zpdescs memcpys into a NULL `local_copy`, producing a kernel oops, alongside `WARN_ON` splats on decompression failure. 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Schematically we can have something like this:\n\nCPU0 CPU1\nzram_slot_lock()\nzs_free(handle)\nzram_slot_lock()\n\t\t\t\tzram_slot_lock()\n\t\t\t\tzs_free(handle)\n\t\t\t\tzram_slot_lock()\n\ncompress\t\t\tcompress\nhandle = zs_malloc()\t\thandle = zs_malloc()\nzram_slot_lock\nzram_set_handle(handle)\nzram_slot_lock\n\t\t\t\tzram_slot_lock\n\t\t\t\tzram_set_handle(handle)\n\t\t\t\tzram_slot_lock\n\nEither CPU0 or CPU1 zsmalloc handle will leak because zs_free() is done\ntoo early. In fact, we need to reset zram entry right before we set its\nnew handle, all under the same slot lock scope."}, {"lang": "es", "value": "En el kernel de Linux, la siguiente vulnerabilidad ha sido resuelta:\n\nzram: corregir condici\u00f3n de carrera de escritura de slot\n\nLas escrituras concurrentes paralelas al mismo \u00edndice de zram resultan en handles de zsmalloc filtrados. Esquem\u00e1ticamente podemos tener algo como esto:\n\nCPU0 CPU1\nzram_slot_lock()\nzs_free(handle)\nzram_slot_lock()\n\t\t\t\tzram_slot_lock()\n\t\t\t\tzs_free(handle)\n\t\t\t\tzram_slot_lock()\n\ncompress\t\t\tcompress\nhandle = zs_malloc()\t\thandle = zs_malloc()\nzram_slot_lock\nzram_set_handle(handle)\nzram_slot_lock\n\t\t\t\tzram_slot_lock\n\t\t\t\tzram_set_handle(handle)\n\t\t\t\tzram_slot_lock\n\nEl handle de zsmalloc de la CPU0 o la CPU1 se filtrar\u00e1 porque zs_free() se ejecuta demasiado pronto. De hecho, necesitamos restablecer la entrada de zram justo antes de establecer su nuevo handle, todo bajo el mismo \u00e1mbito de bloqueo de slot."}], "id": "CVE-2025-39941", "lastModified": "2026-10-19T21:10:00.160", "metrics": {"cvssMetricV31": [{"cvssData": {"attackComplexity": "LOW", "attackVector": "LOCAL", "availabilityImpact": "HIGH", "baseScore": 7.8, "baseSeverity": "HIGH", "confidentialityImpact": "HIGH", "integrityImpact": "HIGH", "privilegesRequired": "LOW", "scope": "UNCHANGED", "userInteraction": "NONE", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "version": "3.1"}, "exploitabilityScore": 1.8, "impactScore": 5.9, "source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "type": "Secondary"}, {"cvssData": {"attackComplexity": "HIGH", "attackVector": "LOCAL", "availabilityImpact": "HIGH", "baseScore": 4.7, "baseSeverity": "MEDIUM", "confidentialityImpact": "NONE", "integrityImpact": "NONE", "privilegesRequired": "LOW", "scope": "UNCHANGED", "userInteraction": "NONE", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H", "version": "3.1"}, "exploitabilityScore": 1.0, "impactScore": 3.6, "source": "nvd@nist.gov", "type": "Primary"}]}, "published": "2025-10-04T08:15:47.103", "references": [{"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "tags": ["Patch"], "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce4be9e4307c5a60701ff6e0cafa74caffdc54ce"}, {"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "tags": ["Patch"], "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff750e9f2c4d63854c33967d1646b5e89a9a19a2"}], "sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "vulnStatus": "Modified", "weaknesses": [{"description": [{"lang": "en", "value": "CWE-362"}], "source": "nvd@nist.gov", "type": "Primary"}]}

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{"created": "2025-10-06T14:41:59.861136+00:00", "updated": "2025-10-06T14:41:59.861189+00:00", "vendors": ["linux", "linux$PRODUCT$linux_kernel"]}