CVE-2025-38686
kernel: userfaultfd: fix a crash in UFFDIO_MOVE when PMD is a migration entry
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · September 4, 2025
Updated · June 30, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
userfaultfd: fix a crash in UFFDIO_MOVE when PMD is a migration entry
When UFFDIO_MOVE encounters a migration PMD entry, it proceeds with obtaining a folio and accessing it even though the entry is swp_entry_t. Add the missing check and let split_huge_pmd() handle migration entries. While at it also remove unnecessary folio check.
[[email protected]: remove extra folio check, per David]
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 4.7CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-351 · Insufficient Type Distinction