CVE-2025-38681

EUVD-2025-26788
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/ptdump: take the memory hotplug lock inside ptdump_walk_pgd()

Memory hot remove unmaps and tears down various kernel page table regions
as required.  The ptdump code can race with concurrent modifications of
the kernel page tables.  When leaf entries are modified concurrently, the
dump code may log stale or inconsistent information for a VA range, but
this is otherwise not harmful.

But when intermediate levels of kernel page table are freed, the dump code
will continue to use memory that has been freed and potentially
reallocated for another purpose.  In such cases, the ptdump code may
dereference bogus addresses, leading to a number of potential problems.

To avoid the above mentioned race condition, platforms such as arm64,
riscv and s390 take memory hotplug lock, while dumping kernel page table
via the sysfs interface /sys/kernel/debug/kernel_page_tables.

Similar race condition exists while checking for pages that might have
been marked W+X via /sys/kernel/debug/kernel_page_tables/check_wx_pages
which in turn calls ptdump_check_wx().  Instead of solving this race
condition again, let's just move the memory hotplug lock inside generic
ptdump_check_wx() which will benefit both the scenarios.

Drop get_online_mems() and put_online_mems() combination from all existing
platform ptdump code paths.
Race Condition
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
siemens-SADPADP
4.7 MEDIUM
LOCAL
HIGH
LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: 1%
Affected Products (NVD)
VendorProductVersion
linuxlinux_kernel
5.7 ≤
𝑥
< 5.10.241
linuxlinux_kernel
5.11 ≤
𝑥
< 5.15.190
linuxlinux_kernel
5.16 ≤
𝑥
< 6.1.149
linuxlinux_kernel
6.2 ≤
𝑥
< 6.6.103
linuxlinux_kernel
6.7 ≤
𝑥
< 6.12.43
linuxlinux_kernel
6.13 ≤
𝑥
< 6.15.11
linuxlinux_kernel
6.16 ≤
𝑥
< 6.16.2
debiandebian_linux
11.0
𝑥
= Vulnerable software versions
Early Detection
Affected products identified ahead of NVD analysis through intelligence sources.
VendorProductVersionSource
SiemensSIMATIC CN 4100
𝑥
< V5.0
ADP
SiemensSIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP
V3.1.6 ≤
𝑥
< *
ADP
SiemensSIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP
V3.1.6 ≤
𝑥
< *
ADP
SiemensSIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518F-4 PN/DP MFP
V3.1.6 ≤
𝑥
< *
ADP
SiemensSIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518F-4 PN/DP MFP
V3.1.6 ≤
𝑥
< *
ADP
SiemensSIPLUS S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP
V3.1.6 ≤
𝑥
< *
ADP
siemenssimatic_cn_4100
𝑥
< 5.0
ADP
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