UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38424: Medium severity ubuntu/linux vulnerability

Published Jul 25, 2025

Updated

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf: Fix sample vs doexit() Baisheng Gao reported an ARM64 crash, which Mark decoded as being a synchronous external abort -- most likely due to trying to access MMIO in bad ways. The crash further shows perf trying to do a user stack sample while in exitmmap()'s tlbfinishmmu() -- i.e. while tearing down the address space it is trying to access. It turns out that we stop perf after we tear down the userspace mm; a receipie for disaster, since perf likes to access userspace for various reasons. Flip this order by moving up where we stop perf in doexit(). Additionally, harden PERFSAMPLECALLCHAIN and PERFSAMPLESTACKUSER to abort when the current task does not have an mm (exitmm() makes sure to set current->mm = NULL; before commencing with the actual teardown). Such that CPU wide events don't trip on this same problem.

Affected Software

224 affected componentsFixes available

ubuntu/linux*

ubuntu/linux-aws*

ubuntu/linux-azure*

ubuntu/linux-lts-xenial*

ubuntu/linux*

ubuntu/linux-aws*

ubuntu/linux-aws-hwe*

ubuntu/linux-azure*

ubuntu/linux-gcp*

ubuntu/linux-hwe*

ubuntu/linux-hwe-edge*

ubuntu/linux-kvm*

ubuntu/linux-oracle*

ubuntu/linux-fips*

ubuntu/linux*

ubuntu/linux-aws*

ubuntu/linux-aws-5.0*

ubuntu/linux-aws-5.3*

ubuntu/linux-aws-5.4*

ubuntu/linux-azure*

ubuntu/linux-azure-4.15*

ubuntu/linux-azure-5.3*

ubuntu/linux-azure-5.4*

ubuntu/linux-azure-edge*

ubuntu/linux-gcp*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-4.15*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-5.3*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-5.4*

ubuntu/linux-gke-4.15*

ubuntu/linux-gke-5.4*

ubuntu/linux-gkeop-5.4*

ubuntu/linux-hwe*

ubuntu/linux-hwe-5.4*

ubuntu/linux-hwe-edge*

ubuntu/linux-ibm-5.4*

ubuntu/linux-kvm*

ubuntu/linux-oem*

ubuntu/linux-oracle*

ubuntu/linux-oracle-5.0*

ubuntu/linux-oracle-5.3*

ubuntu/linux-oracle-5.4*

ubuntu/linux-raspi-5.4*

ubuntu/linux-aws-fips*

ubuntu/linux-azure-fips*

ubuntu/linux-fips*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-fips*

ubuntu/linux-aws-fips*

ubuntu/linux-azure-fips*

ubuntu/linux-fips*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-fips*

ubuntu/linux*

ubuntu/linux-aws*

ubuntu/linux-aws-5.11*

ubuntu/linux-aws-5.13*

ubuntu/linux-aws-5.15<5.15.0-1092.99~20.04.1

5.15.0-1092.99~20.04.1

ubuntu/linux-aws-5.8*

ubuntu/linux-azure*

ubuntu/linux-azure-5.11*

ubuntu/linux-azure-5.13*

ubuntu/linux-azure-5.15<5.15.0-1096.105~20.04.1

5.15.0-1096.105~20.04.1

ubuntu/linux-azure-5.8*

ubuntu/linux-azure-fde*

ubuntu/linux-bluefield*

ubuntu/linux-gcp*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-5.11*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-5.13*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-5.15<5.15.0-1092.101~20.04.1

5.15.0-1092.101~20.04.1

ubuntu/linux-gcp-5.8*

ubuntu/linux-gke*

ubuntu/linux-gke-5.15*

ubuntu/linux-gkeop*

ubuntu/linux-gkeop-5.15*

ubuntu/linux-hwe-5.11*

ubuntu/linux-hwe-5.13*

ubuntu/linux-hwe-5.15<5.15.0-156.166~20.04.1

5.15.0-156.166~20.04.1

ubuntu/linux-hwe-5.8*

ubuntu/linux-ibm*

ubuntu/linux-ibm-5.15<5.15.0-1086.89~20.04.1

5.15.0-1086.89~20.04.1

ubuntu/linux-intel-5.13*

ubuntu/linux-intel-iotg-5.15<5.15.0-1087.93~20.04.1

5.15.0-1087.93~20.04.1

ubuntu/linux-iot*

ubuntu/linux-kvm*

ubuntu/linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15<5.15.0-156.166~20.04.1

5.15.0-156.166~20.04.1

ubuntu/linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15<5.15.0-1045.45~20.04.1

5.15.0-1045.45~20.04.1

ubuntu/linux-oem-5.10*

ubuntu/linux-oem-5.13*

ubuntu/linux-oem-5.6*

ubuntu/linux-oracle*

ubuntu/linux-oracle-5.11*

ubuntu/linux-oracle-5.13*

ubuntu/linux-oracle-5.15<5.15.0-1090.96~20.04.1

5.15.0-1090.96~20.04.1

ubuntu/linux-oracle-5.8*

ubuntu/linux-raspi*

ubuntu/linux-raspi2*

ubuntu/linux-riscv*

ubuntu/linux-riscv-5.11*

ubuntu/linux-riscv-5.15<5.15.0-1087.91~20.04.1

5.15.0-1087.91~20.04.1

ubuntu/linux-riscv-5.8*

ubuntu/linux-xilinx-zynqmp*

ubuntu/linux-aws-fips*

ubuntu/linux-azure-fips*

ubuntu/linux-fips*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-fips*

ubuntu/linux-aws-fips*

ubuntu/linux-azure-fips*

ubuntu/linux-fips*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-fips*

ubuntu/linux<5.15.0-156.166

5.15.0-156.166

ubuntu/linux-allwinner-5.19*

ubuntu/linux-aws<5.15.0-1092.99

5.15.0-1092.99

ubuntu/linux-aws-5.19*

ubuntu/linux-aws-6.2*

ubuntu/linux-aws-6.5*

ubuntu/linux-aws-6.8<6.8.0-1046.49~22.04.1

6.8.0-1046.49~22.04.1

ubuntu/linux-azure<5.15.0-1096.105

5.15.0-1096.105

ubuntu/linux-azure-5.19*

ubuntu/linux-azure-6.2*

ubuntu/linux-azure-6.5*

ubuntu/linux-azure-6.8<6.8.0-1051.57~22.04.1

6.8.0-1051.57~22.04.1

ubuntu/linux-azure-fde<5.15.0-1096.105.1

5.15.0-1096.105.1

ubuntu/linux-azure-fde-5.19*

ubuntu/linux-azure-fde-6.2*

ubuntu/linux-azure-fde-6.8<6.8.0-1046.53~22.04.1

6.8.0-1046.53~22.04.1

ubuntu/linux-gcp<5.15.0-1092.101

5.15.0-1092.101

ubuntu/linux-gcp-5.19*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-6.2*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-6.5*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-6.8<6.8.0-1047.50~22.04.2

6.8.0-1047.50~22.04.2

ubuntu/linux-gke<5.15.0-1089.95

5.15.0-1089.95

ubuntu/linux-gkeop<5.15.0-1075.83

5.15.0-1075.83

ubuntu/linux-hwe-5.19*

ubuntu/linux-hwe-6.2*

ubuntu/linux-hwe-6.5*

ubuntu/linux-hwe-6.8<6.8.0-100.100~22.04.1

6.8.0-100.100~22.04.1

ubuntu/linux-ibm<5.15.0-1086.89

5.15.0-1086.89

ubuntu/linux-ibm-6.8<6.8.0-1044.44~22.04.1

6.8.0-1044.44~22.04.1

ubuntu/linux-intel-iot-realtime*

ubuntu/linux-intel-iotg<5.15.0-1087.93

5.15.0-1087.93

ubuntu/linux-kvm<5.15.0-1088.93

5.15.0-1088.93

ubuntu/linux-lowlatency<5.15.0-156.166

5.15.0-156.166

ubuntu/linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19*

ubuntu/linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2*

ubuntu/linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5*

ubuntu/linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8<6.8.0-100.100.1~22.04.1

6.8.0-100.100.1~22.04.1

ubuntu/linux-nvidia<5.15.0-1087.88

5.15.0-1087.88

ubuntu/linux-nvidia-6.2*

ubuntu/linux-nvidia-6.5*

ubuntu/linux-nvidia-6.8<6.8.0-1046.49~22.04.1

6.8.0-1046.49~22.04.1

ubuntu/linux-nvidia-tegra<5.15.0-1045.45

5.15.0-1045.45

ubuntu/linux-nvidia-tegra-igx<5.15.0-1034.34

5.15.0-1034.34

ubuntu/linux-oem-5.17*

ubuntu/linux-oem-6.0*

ubuntu/linux-oem-6.1*

ubuntu/linux-oem-6.5*

ubuntu/linux-oracle<5.15.0-1090.96

5.15.0-1090.96

ubuntu/linux-oracle-6.5*

ubuntu/linux-oracle-6.8<6.8.0-1043.44~22.04.1

6.8.0-1043.44~22.04.1

ubuntu/linux-raspi<5.15.0-1086.89

5.15.0-1086.89

ubuntu/linux-realtime*

ubuntu/linux-riscv*

ubuntu/linux-riscv-5.19*

ubuntu/linux-riscv-6.5*

ubuntu/linux-riscv-6.8<6.8.0-100.100~22.04.1

6.8.0-100.100~22.04.1

ubuntu/linux-starfive-5.19*

ubuntu/linux-starfive-6.2*

ubuntu/linux-starfive-6.5*

ubuntu/linux-xilinx-zynqmp<5.15.0-1056.60

5.15.0-1056.60

ubuntu/linux-bluefield<5.15.0-1076.78

5.15.0-1076.78

ubuntu/linux-intel-iot-realtime<5.15.0-1085.87

5.15.0-1085.87

ubuntu/linux-realtime<5.15.0-1092.101

5.15.0-1092.101

ubuntu/linux-realtime-6.8<6.8.1-1041.42~22.04.1

6.8.1-1041.42~22.04.1

ubuntu/linux-aws-fips*

ubuntu/linux-azure-fips*

ubuntu/linux-fips*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-fips*

ubuntu/linux-aws-fips<5.15.0-1092.99+fips1

5.15.0-1092.99+fips1

ubuntu/linux-azure-fips<5.15.0-1096.105+fips1

5.15.0-1096.105+fips1

ubuntu/linux-fips<5.15.0-156.166+fips1

5.15.0-156.166+fips1

ubuntu/linux-gcp-fips<5.15.0-1092.101+fips1

5.15.0-1092.101+fips1

ubuntu/linux<6.8.0-100.100

6.8.0-100.100

ubuntu/linux-aws<6.8.0-1046.49

6.8.0-1046.49

ubuntu/linux-aws-6.14<6.14.0-1015.15~24.04.1

6.14.0-1015.15~24.04.1

ubuntu/linux-azure<6.8.0-1046.52

6.8.0-1046.52

ubuntu/linux-azure-6.11*

ubuntu/linux-azure-6.14<6.14.0-1014.14~24.04.1

6.14.0-1014.14~24.04.1

ubuntu/linux-azure-fde<6.8.0-1046.53

6.8.0-1046.53

ubuntu/linux-azure-nvidia<6.8.0-1039.42

6.8.0-1039.42

ubuntu/linux-azure-nvidia-6.14<6.14.0-1007.7

6.14.0-1007.7

ubuntu/linux-gcp<6.8.0-1047.50

6.8.0-1047.50

ubuntu/linux-gcp-6.11*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-6.14<6.14.0-1018.19~24.04.1

6.14.0-1018.19~24.04.1

ubuntu/linux-gke<6.8.0-1043.48

6.8.0-1043.48

ubuntu/linux-gkeop<6.8.0-1030.33

6.8.0-1030.33

ubuntu/linux-hwe-6.11*

ubuntu/linux-ibm<6.8.0-1044.44

6.8.0-1044.44

ubuntu/linux-intel*

ubuntu/linux-lowlatency<6.8.0-100.100.1

6.8.0-100.100.1

ubuntu/linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11*

ubuntu/linux-nvidia<6.8.0-1046.49

6.8.0-1046.49

ubuntu/linux-nvidia-6.11*

ubuntu/linux-nvidia-lowlatency<6.8.0-1046.49.1

6.8.0-1046.49.1

ubuntu/linux-nvidia-tegra<6.8.0-1020.20

6.8.0-1020.20

ubuntu/linux-oem-6.11*

ubuntu/linux-oem-6.14<6.14.0-1014.14

6.14.0-1014.14

ubuntu/linux-oem-6.8*

ubuntu/linux-oracle<6.8.0-1043.44

6.8.0-1043.44

ubuntu/linux-oracle-6.14<6.14.0-1015.15~24.04.1

6.14.0-1015.15~24.04.1

ubuntu/linux-raspi<6.8.0-1047.51

6.8.0-1047.51

ubuntu/linux-raspi-realtime*

ubuntu/linux-realtime*

ubuntu/linux-riscv*

ubuntu/linux-riscv-6.14<6.14.0-34.34.1~24.04.1

6.14.0-34.34.1~24.04.1

ubuntu/linux-xilinx<6.8.0-1023.24

6.8.0-1023.24

ubuntu/linux-bluefield<6.8.0-1016.20

6.8.0-1016.20

ubuntu/linux-raspi-realtime<6.8.0-2037.38

6.8.0-2037.38

ubuntu/linux-realtime<6.8.1-1041.42

6.8.1-1041.42

ubuntu/linux-realtime-6.14<6.14.0-1014.14~24.04.1

6.14.0-1014.14~24.04.1

ubuntu/linux-aws-fips<6.8.0-1046.49+fips1

6.8.0-1046.49+fips1

ubuntu/linux-azure-fips<6.8.0-1046.52+fips1

6.8.0-1046.52+fips1

ubuntu/linux-fips<6.8.0-100.100+fips1

6.8.0-100.100+fips1

ubuntu/linux-gcp-fips<6.8.0-1047.50+fips1

6.8.0-1047.50+fips1

ubuntu/linux-azure-fde*

ubuntu/linux-vmware*

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

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Fixed in 5.15.0-1092.99~20.04.1
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Fixed in 5.15.0-1096.105~20.04.1
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Fixed in 5.15.0-1092.101~20.04.1
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Fixed in 5.15.0-156.166~20.04.1
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Fixed in 5.15.0-1086.89~20.04.1
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Fixed in 5.15.0-1087.93~20.04.1
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Fixed in 5.15.0-156.166~20.04.1
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Fixed in 5.15.0-1045.45~20.04.1
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Fixed in 5.15.0-1090.96~20.04.1
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Fixed in 5.15.0-1087.91~20.04.1
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Fixed in 5.15.0-1092.99
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Fixed in 5.15.0-1096.105
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Fixed in 6.8.0-1051.57~22.04.1
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Fixed in 5.15.0-1096.105.1
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Fixed in 6.8.0-1046.53~22.04.1
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Fixed in 5.15.0-1086.89
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Fixed in 6.8.0-1044.44~22.04.1
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Fixed in 5.15.0-1087.93
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Fixed in 5.15.0-1087.88
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Fixed in 5.15.0-1045.45
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Fixed in 5.15.0-1034.34
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Fixed in 6.8.0-100.100~22.04.1
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Fixed in 5.15.0-1076.78
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Fixed in 5.15.0-1085.87
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Fixed in 5.15.0-1092.99+fips1
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Fixed in 6.8.0-1046.53
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Fixed in 6.8.0-1039.42
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Fixed in 6.14.0-1007.7
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Fixed in 6.8.0-1047.50
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Fixed in 6.8.0-1043.48
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Fixed in 6.8.0-1046.49.1
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Fixed in 6.8.0-1020.20
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Fixed in 6.8.0-1047.51
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Fixed in 6.14.0-34.34.1~24.04.1
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Fixed in 6.8.0-1023.24
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Fixed in 6.8.0-1016.20
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Fixed in 6.8.0-2037.38
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Fixed in 6.8.1-1041.42
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Fixed in 6.14.0-1014.14~24.04.1
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Fixed in 6.8.0-1046.49+fips1
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Fixed in 6.8.0-1046.52+fips1
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Fixed in 6.8.0-100.100+fips1
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Fixed in 6.8.0-1047.50+fips1
Compensating control
Harden PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN and PERF_SAMPLE_STACK_USER so they abort when the current task has no mm (current->mm = NULL).
Compensating control
Move the point where perf is stopped earlier in do_exit(), before the userspace mm is torn down, including before exit_mmap() and its address-space teardown.

Event History

Jul 25, 2025

CVE Published

via OSV·03:15 PM

Data Sourced

via OSV·03:15 PM

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What conditions are required to trigger this issue?

An attacker needs local access and low privileges. The affected system must have perf sampling activity that accesses user stack or callchain data while a task's address space is being torn down during exit.

What is the likely impact if the issue is triggered?

The reported failure is an ARM64 synchronous external abort associated with perf accessing user memory or MMIO unsafely during address-space teardown. The vulnerability is rated medium severity and can affect availability.

Which Ubuntu kernel packages are listed as affected?

The listed packages are ubuntu/linux, ubuntu/linux-aws, ubuntu/linux-azure, ubuntu/linux-gcp, ubuntu/linux-fips, ubuntu/linux-aws-fips, ubuntu/linux-azure-fips, and ubuntu/linux-gcp-fips.

UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38424: Medium severity ubuntu/linux vulnerability

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Frequently Asked Questions

What conditions are required to trigger this issue?

What is the likely impact if the issue is triggered?

Which Ubuntu kernel packages are listed as affected?