UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21696: Medium severity ubuntu/linux-hwe-edge vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: clear uffd-wp PTE/PMD state on mremap() When mremap()ing a memory region previously registered with userfaultfd as write-protected but without UFFDFEATUREEVENTREMAP, an inconsistency in flag clearing leads to a mismatch between the vma flags (which have uffd-wp cleared) and the pte/pmd flags (which do not have uffd-wp cleared). This mismatch causes a subsequent mprotect(PROTWRITE) to trigger a warning in pagetablecheckpteflags() due to setting the pte to writable while uffd-wp is still set. Fix this by always explicitly clearing the uffd-wp pte/pmd flags on any such mremap() so that the values are consistent with the existing clearing of VMUFFDWP. Be careful to clear the logical flag regardless of its physical form; a PTE bit, a swap PTE bit, or a PTE marker. Cover PTE, huge PMD and hugetlb paths.
Affected Software
Remediation
Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.
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ubuntu/linux-azure-6.11to a version that resolves this vulnerability.Fixed in 6.11.0-1013.13~24.04.1 - Upgrade
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ubuntu/linux-gcp-6.11to a version that resolves this vulnerability.Fixed in 6.11.0-1013.13~24.04.1 - Upgrade
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ubuntu/linux-hwe-6.11to a version that resolves this vulnerability.Fixed in 6.11.0-24.24~24.04.1 - Upgrade
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ubuntu/linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11to a version that resolves this vulnerability.Fixed in 6.11.0-1012.13~24.04.1 - Upgrade
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ubuntu/linux-nvidia-6.11to a version that resolves this vulnerability.Fixed in 6.11.0-1007.7 - Upgrade
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ubuntu/linux-oem-6.11to a version that resolves this vulnerability.Fixed in 6.11.0-1020.20