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CVE-2025-21691

cachestat: fix page cache statistics permission checking

Linux

Status
  • Not in CISA KEV
  • Vendor fix available
Exploit probabilityEPSSchecked 25 Oct
0.2%probability of exploitation in the next 30 days

Higher than 10% of scored CVEs

SeverityCVSS
–Not scored yet

Description NVD

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cachestat: fix page cache statistics permission checking When the 'cachestat()' system call was added in commit cf264e1329fb ("cachestat: implement cachestat syscall"), it was meant to be a much more convenient (and performant) version of mincore() that didn't need mapping things into the user virtual address space in order to work. But it ended up missing the "check for writability or ownership" fix for mincore(), done in commit 134fca9063ad ("mm/mincore.c: make mincore() more conservative"). This just adds equivalent logic to 'cachestat()', modified for the file context (rather than vma).

Coverage 1 article · 1 outlet

First in our coverage: SecurityWeek, 22 JanRSS feed
  1. Old Attack, New Speed: Researchers Optimize Page Cache ExploitsSecurityWeek · first in our coverage

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