CVE-2025-38681

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/ptdump: take the memory hotplug lock inside ptdumpwalkpgd 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...

CVE-2025-38681

CVE-2025-38681 affects the Linux kernel mm/ptdump code. The issue arises when memory hotplug modifications race with ptdump_walk_pgd() and intermediate page-table frees, causing the ptdump code to dereference freed memory and potentially crash or corrupt data. The fix moves the memory hotplug loc...

CVE-2025-38681 mm/ptdump: take the memory hotplug lock inside ptdump_walk_pgd()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/ptdump: take the memory hotplug lock inside ptdumpwalkpgd 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...