CVE-2025-38466

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

perf: Revert to requiring CAP_SYS_ADMIN for uprobes

Jann reports that uprobes can be used destructively when used in the middle of an instruction. The kernel only verifies there is a valid instruction at the requested offset, but due to variable instruction length cannot determine if this is an instruction as seen by the intended execution stream.

Additionally, Mark Rutland notes that on architectures that mix data in the text segment (like arm64), a similar things can be done if the data word is 'mistaken' for an instruction.

As such, require CAP_SYS_ADMIN for uprobes.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinuxc9e0924e5c2b59365f9c0d43ff8722e79ecf4088 < d7ef1afd5b3f43f4924326164cee5397b66abd9caffected
LinuxLinuxc9e0924e5c2b59365f9c0d43ff8722e79ecf4088 < c0aec35f861fa746ca45aa816161c74352e6ada8affected
LinuxLinuxc9e0924e5c2b59365f9c0d43ff8722e79ecf4088 < 8e8bf7bc6aa6f583336c2fda280b6cea0aed5612affected
LinuxLinuxc9e0924e5c2b59365f9c0d43ff8722e79ecf4088 < 183bdb89af1b5193b1d1d9316986053b15ca6fa4affected
LinuxLinuxc9e0924e5c2b59365f9c0d43ff8722e79ecf4088 < a0a8009083e569b5526c64f7d3f2a62baca95164affected
LinuxLinuxc9e0924e5c2b59365f9c0d43ff8722e79ecf4088 < d5074256b642cdeb46a70ce2f15193e766edca68affected
LinuxLinuxc9e0924e5c2b59365f9c0d43ff8722e79ecf4088 < ba677dbe77af5ffe6204e0f3f547f3ba059c6302affected
LinuxLinux5.8affected
LinuxLinux0 < 5.8unaffected
LinuxLinux5.10.240 <= 5.10.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.15.189 <= 5.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.1.146 <= 6.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.6.99 <= 6.6.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.12.39 <= 6.12.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.15.7 <= 6.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.16 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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