Resource management error in Linux kernel - CVE-2025-22090
Published: April 22, 2025 / Updated: May 10, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU107774
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-22090
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Linux Foundation
Affected software:
Linux kernel
Linux kernel
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to resource management error within the copy_page_range() function in mm/memory.c, within the vm_area_dup() function in kernel/fork.c, within the get_pat_info() and untrack_pfn() functions in arch/x86/mm/pat/memtype.c. A local user can perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
How to mitigate CVE-2025-22090
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d6373f83f367dbed316ddeb178130a3a64b5b67
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b07398e8a5da517083f5c3f2daa8f6681b48ab28
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da381c33f3aa6406406c9fdf07b8b0b63e0ce722
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc84bc2aba85a1508f04a936f9f9a15f64ebfb31
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de6185b8892d88142ef69768fe4077cbf40109c0
- https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.14.2