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CVE-2025-38686

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.5 Published: 2025-09-04 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: userfaultfd: fix a crash in UFFDIO_MOVE when PMD is a migration entry When UFFDIO_MOVE encounters a migration PMD entry, it proceeds with obtaining a folio and accessing it even though the entry is swp_entry_t. Add the missing check and let split_huge_pmd() handle migration entries. While at it also remove unnecessary folio check. [[email protected]: remove extra folio check, per David]

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-noinfo

References