DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38364
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: maple_tree: fix MA_STATE_PREALLOC flag in mas_preallocate() Temporarily clear the preallocation flag when explicitly requesting allocations. Pre-existing allocations are already counted against the request through mas_node_count_gfp(), but the allocations will not happen if the MA_STATE_PREALLOC flag is set. This flag is meant to avoid re-allocating in bulk allocation mode, and to detect issues with preallocation calculations. The MA_STATE_PREALLOC flag should also always be set on zero allocations so that detection of underflow allocations will print a WARN_ON() during consumption. User visible effect of this flaw is a WARN_ON() followed by a null pointer dereference when subsequent requests for larger number of nodes is ignored, such as the vma merge retry in mmap_region() caused by drivers altering the vma flags (which happens in v6.6, at least)
Risk Scores
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | linux | 6.1.76-1, 6.1.38-1, 6.1.38-2 |
| Debian:14 | linux | 0, 0 |
| Debian:11 | linux-6.1 | 6.1.137-1, 6.1.147-1, 6.1.148-1 |
| Debian:13 | linux | 0, 0 |
Timeline
- Jul 25, 2025 CVE Published
- Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated