CVE - CVE-2025-38320

CVE-ID
CVE-2025-38320	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: arm64/ptrace: Fix stack-out-of-bounds read in regs_get_kernel_stack_nth() KASAN reports a stack-out-of-bounds read in regs_get_kernel_stack_nth(). Call Trace: [ 97.283505] BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in regs_get_kernel_stack_nth+0xa8/0xc8 [ 97.284677] Read of size 8 at addr ffff800089277c10 by task 1.sh/2550 [ 97.285732] [ 97.286067] CPU: 7 PID: 2550 Comm: 1.sh Not tainted 6.6.0+ #11 [ 97.287032] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) [ 97.287815] Call trace: [ 97.288279] dump_backtrace+0xa0/0x128 [ 97.288946] show_stack+0x20/0x38 [ 97.289551] dump_stack_lvl+0x78/0xc8 [ 97.290203] print_address_description.constprop.0+0x84/0x3c8 [ 97.291159] print_report+0xb0/0x280 [ 97.291792] kasan_report+0x84/0xd0 [ 97.292421] __asan_load8+0x9c/0xc0 [ 97.293042] regs_get_kernel_stack_nth+0xa8/0xc8 [ 97.293835] process_fetch_insn+0x770/0xa30 [ 97.294562] kprobe_trace_func+0x254/0x3b0 [ 97.295271] kprobe_dispatcher+0x98/0xe0 [ 97.295955] kprobe_breakpoint_handler+0x1b0/0x210 [ 97.296774] call_break_hook+0xc4/0x100 [ 97.297451] brk_handler+0x24/0x78 [ 97.298073] do_debug_exception+0xac/0x178 [ 97.298785] el1_dbg+0x70/0x90 [ 97.299344] el1h_64_sync_handler+0xcc/0xe8 [ 97.300066] el1h_64_sync+0x78/0x80 [ 97.300699] kernel_clone+0x0/0x500 [ 97.301331] __arm64_sys_clone+0x70/0x90 [ 97.302084] invoke_syscall+0x68/0x198 [ 97.302746] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x11c/0x150 [ 97.303569] do_el0_svc+0x38/0x50 [ 97.304164] el0_svc+0x44/0x1d8 [ 97.304749] el0t_64_sync_handler+0x100/0x130 [ 97.305500] el0t_64_sync+0x188/0x190 [ 97.306151] [ 97.306475] The buggy address belongs to stack of task 1.sh/2550 [ 97.307461] and is located at offset 0 in frame: [ 97.308257] __se_sys_clone+0x0/0x138 [ 97.308910] [ 97.309241] This frame has 1 object: [ 97.309873] [48, 184) 'args' [ 97.309876] [ 97.310749] The buggy address belongs to the virtual mapping at [ 97.310749] [ffff800089270000, ffff800089279000) created by: [ 97.310749] dup_task_struct+0xc0/0x2e8 [ 97.313347] [ 97.313674] The buggy address belongs to the physical page: [ 97.314604] page: refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x14f69a [ 97.315885] flags: 0x15ffffe00000000(node=1\|zone=2\|lastcpupid=0xfffff) [ 97.316957] raw: 015ffffe00000000 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 0000000000000000 [ 97.318207] raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000 [ 97.319445] page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected [ 97.320371] [ 97.320694] Memory state around the buggy address: [ 97.321511] ffff800089277b00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 97.322681] ffff800089277b80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 97.323846] >ffff800089277c00: 00 00 f1 f1 f1 f1 f1 f1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 97.325023] ^ [ 97.325683] ffff800089277c80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f3 f3 f3 f3 f3 f3 f3 [ 97.326856] ffff800089277d00: f3 f3 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 This issue seems to be related to the behavior of some gcc compilers and was also fixed on the s390 architecture before: commit d93a855c31b7 ("s390/ptrace: Avoid KASAN false positives in regs_get_kernel_stack_nth()") As described in that commit, regs_get_kernel_stack_nth() has confirmed that `addr` is on the stack, so reading the value at `addr` should be allowed. Use READ_ONCE_NOCHECK() helper to silence the KASAN check for this case. [will: Use 'addr' as the argument to READ_ONCE_NOCHECK()]
References
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MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01f91d415a8375d85e0c7d3615cd4a168308bb7c URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01f91d415a8375d85e0c7d3615cd4a168308bb7c MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/21da6d3561f373898349ca7167c9811c020da695 URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/21da6d3561f373898349ca7167c9811c020da695 MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22f935bc86bdfbde04009f05eee191d220cd8c89 URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22f935bc86bdfbde04009f05eee191d220cd8c89 MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39dfc971e42d886e7df01371cd1bef505076d84c URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39dfc971e42d886e7df01371cd1bef505076d84c MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/422e565b7889ebfd9c8705a3fc786642afe61fca URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/422e565b7889ebfd9c8705a3fc786642afe61fca MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64773b3ea09235168a549a195cba43bb867c4a17 URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64773b3ea09235168a549a195cba43bb867c4a17 MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/67abac27d806e8f9d4226ec1528540cf73af673a URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/67abac27d806e8f9d4226ec1528540cf73af673a MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92750bfe7b0d8dbcaf578c091a65eda1c5f9ad38 URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92750bfe7b0d8dbcaf578c091a65eda1c5f9ad38
Assigning CNA
kernel.org
Date Record Created
20250416	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
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