Threats Tagged 'cve-2025-40218'

A high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2025-40214) in the Linux kernel's Unix domain sockets subsystem was resolved by initializing scc_index in unix_add_edge(). This flaw could lead to privilege escalation on Container-Optimized OS nodes, affecting multiple Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster types except those using GKE Sandbox. Patch versions have been released for various Container-Optimized OS node pools and Ubuntu Linux kernel packages. Bare metal GDC software is not affected. Users are advised to update to the specified patched kernel versions and reboot to apply fixes.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/damon/vaddr: do not repeat pte_offset_map_lock() until success DAMON's virtual address space operation set implementation (vaddr) calls pte_offset_map_lock() inside the page table walk callback function. This is for reading and writing page table accessed bits. If pte_offset_map_lock() fails, it retries by returning the page table walk callback function with ACTION_AGAIN. pte_offset_map_lock() can continuously fail if the target is a pmd migration entry, though. Hence it could cause an infinite page table walk if the migration cannot be done until the page table walk is finished. This indeed caused a soft lockup when CPU hotplugging and DAMON were running in parallel. Avoid the infinite loop by simply not retrying the page table walk. DAMON is promising only a best-effort accuracy, so missing access to such pages is no problem.