CVE-2025-21691

EUVD-2025-2640
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

cachestat: fix page cache statistics permission checking

When the 'cachestat()' system call was added in commit cf264e1329fb
("cachestat: implement cachestat syscall"), it was meant to be a much
more convenient (and performant) version of mincore() that didn't need
mapping things into the user virtual address space in order to work.

But it ended up missing the "check for writability or ownership" fix for
mincore(), done in commit 134fca9063ad ("mm/mincore.c: make mincore()
more conservative").

This just adds equivalent logic to 'cachestat()', modified for the file
context (rather than vma).
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
NISTPrimary
5.5 MEDIUM
LOCAL
LOW
LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: 4%
Affected Products (NVD)
VendorProductVersion
linuxlinux_kernel
6.5 ≤
𝑥
< 6.6.75
linuxlinux_kernel
6.7 ≤
𝑥
< 6.12.12
linuxlinux_kernel
6.13
𝑥
= Vulnerable software versions
Debian logo
Debian Releases
Debian Product
Codename
linux
bookworm
6.1.170-3
fixed
bookworm (security)
6.1.174-1
fixed
bullseye
5.10.223-1
fixed
bullseye (security)
5.10.257-1
fixed
forky
7.0.9-1
fixed
sid
7.0.10-1
fixed
trixie
6.12.86-1
fixed
trixie (security)
6.12.90-2
fixed
Red Hat logo
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Releases
Red Hat Product
Release
kernel
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-64k
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-64k-core
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-64k-debug
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-64k-debug-core
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-64k-debug-devel
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-64k-debug-devel-matched
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-64k-debug-modules
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-64k-debug-modules-core
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-64k-debug-modules-extra
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-64k-devel
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-64k-devel-matched
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-64k-modules
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-64k-modules-core
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-64k-modules-extra
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-abi-stablelists
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-core
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-debug
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-debug-core
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-debug-devel
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-debug-devel-matched
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-debug-modules
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-debug-modules-core
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-debug-modules-extra
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-debug-uki-virt
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-devel
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-devel-matched
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-doc
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-modules
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-modules-core
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-modules-extra
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-64k
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-64k-core
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-64k-debug
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-64k-debug-core
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-64k-debug-devel
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-64k-debug-modules
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-64k-debug-modules-core
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-64k-debug-modules-extra
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-64k-devel
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-64k-modules
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-64k-modules-core
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-64k-modules-extra
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-core
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-debug
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-debug-core
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-debug-devel
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-debug-modules
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-debug-modules-core
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-devel
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-modules
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-modules-core
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-modules-extra
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-tools
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-tools-libs
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-tools-libs-devel
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-uki-virt
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-uki-virt-addons
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-zfcpdump
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-zfcpdump-core
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-zfcpdump-devel
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-zfcpdump-devel-matched
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-zfcpdump-modules
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-zfcpdump-modules-core
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-zfcpdump-modules-extra
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
libperf
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
perf
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
python3-perf
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
rtla
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
rv
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed