Vulnerability · Published Apr 16, 2025 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2025-22036exfat: fix random stack corruption after get_block

High 7.8

In plain English

A high-severity use-after-free in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 10% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 90.2% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: exfat: fix random stack corruption after get_block When get_block is called with a buffer_head allocated on the stack, such as do_mpage_readpage, stack corruption due to buffer_head UAF may occur in the following race condition situation. <CPU 0> <CPU 1> mpage_read_folio <<bh on stack>> do_mpage_readpage exfat_get_block bh_read __bh_read get_bh(bh) submit_bh wait_on_buffer ... end_buffer_read_sync __end_buffer_read_notouch unlock_buffer <<keep going>> ... ... ... ... <<bh is not valid out of mpage_read_folio>> . . another_function <<variable A on stack>> put_bh(bh) atomic_dec(bh->b_count) * stack corruption here * This patch returns -EAGAIN if a folio does not have buffers when bh_read needs to be called. By doing this, the caller can fallback to functions like block_read_full_folio(), create a buffer_head in the folio, and then call get_block again. Let's do not call bh_read() with on-stack buffer_head.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:10kernel-abi-stablelists6.12.0-55.21.1.el10_0ALSA-2025:10854
AlmaLinux:10kernel-doc6.12.0-55.21.1.el10_0ALSA-2025:10854
Debian:13linux6.12.25-1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-22036
Debian:14linux6.12.25-1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-22036
Rocky Linux:10kernel0:6.12.0-55.21.1.el10_0RLSA-2025:10854
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux6.8.0-86.87UBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux6.8.0-86.87USN-7835-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws6.8.0-1041.43UBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws6.8.0-1041.43USN-7835-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.86.8.0-1041.43~22.04.1USN-7835-6
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.86.8.0-1041.43~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure6.8.0-1041.47USN-7835-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure6.8.0-1041.47UBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.86.8.0-1041.47~22.04.1USN-7835-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.86.8.0-1041.47~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:25.10linux-azure-fdeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-nvidia6.8.0-1029.32USN-7940-2
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-nvidia6.8.0-1029.32UBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp6.8.0-1042.45UBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp6.8.0-1042.45USN-7835-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.86.8.0-1042.45~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.86.8.0-1042.45~22.04.1USN-7835-3
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gke6.8.0-1038.43UBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gke6.8.0-1038.43USN-7835-3
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gkeop6.8.0-1025.28UBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gkeop6.8.0-1025.28USN-7835-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.86.8.0-86.87~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.86.8.0-86.87~22.04.1USN-7835-4
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-ibm6.8.0-1039.39USN-7835-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-ibm6.8.0-1039.39UBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm-6.86.8.0-1039.39~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm-6.86.8.0-1039.39~22.04.1USN-7835-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-intelno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency6.8.0-86.87.1USN-7835-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency6.8.0-86.87.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.86.8.0-86.87.1~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.86.8.0-86.87.1~22.04.1USN-7835-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia6.8.0-1041.44UBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia6.8.0-1041.44USN-7835-3
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.86.8.0-1041.44~22.04.2UBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.86.8.0-1041.44~22.04.2USN-7835-3
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-lowlatency6.8.0-1041.44.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-lowlatency6.8.0-1041.44.1USN-7835-3
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra6.8.0-1012.12UBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle6.8.0-1038.39USN-7835-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle6.8.0-1038.39UBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.86.8.0-1038.39~22.04.1USN-7835-5
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.86.8.0-1038.39~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi6.8.0-1041.45UBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi6.8.0-1041.45USN-7887-2
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.86.8.0-86.87~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-xilinx6.8.0-1018.19UBUNTU-CVE-2025-22036

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux 11a347fb6cef62ce47e84b97c45f2b2497c7593b – before 49b0a6ab8e528a0c1c50e37cef9b9c7c121365f211a347fb6cef62ce47e84b97c45f2b2497c7593b – before f7447286363dc1e410bf30b87d75168f3519f9cc11a347fb6cef62ce47e84b97c45f2b2497c7593b – before f807a6bf2005740fa26b4f59c4a003dc966b9afd11a347fb6cef62ce47e84b97c45f2b2497c7593b – before 1bb7ff4204b6d4927e982cd256286c09ed4fd8ca
Linux Linux 6.8

Weakness: CWE-416 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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