5.5

CVE-2025-38614

eventpoll: Fix semi-unbounded recursion

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

eventpoll: Fix semi-unbounded recursion

Ensure that epoll instances can never form a graph deeper than
EP_MAX_NESTS+1 links.

Currently, ep_loop_check_proc() ensures that the graph is loop-free and
does some recursion depth checks, but those recursion depth checks don't
limit the depth of the resulting tree for two reasons:

 - They don't look upwards in the tree.
 - If there are multiple downwards paths of different lengths, only one of
   the paths is actually considered for the depth check since commit
   28d82dc1c4ed ("epoll: limit paths").

Essentially, the current recursion depth check in ep_loop_check_proc() just
serves to prevent it from recursing too deeply while checking for loops.

A more thorough check is done in reverse_path_check() after the new graph
edge has already been created; this checks, among other things, that no
paths going upwards from any non-epoll file with a length of more than 5
edges exist. However, this check does not apply to non-epoll files.

As a result, it is possible to recurse to a depth of at least roughly 500,
tested on v6.15. (I am unsure if deeper recursion is possible; and this may
have changed with commit 8c44dac8add7 ("eventpoll: Fix priority inversion
problem").)

To fix it:

1. In ep_loop_check_proc(), note the subtree depth of each visited node,
and use subtree depths for the total depth calculation even when a subtree
has already been visited.
2. Add ep_get_upwards_depth_proc() for similarly determining the maximum
depth of an upwards walk.
3. In ep_loop_check(), use these values to limit the total path length
between epoll nodes to EP_MAX_NESTS edges.
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 2.6.32.30 < 2.6.33
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 2.6.33.8 < 2.6.34
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 2.6.34.10 < 2.6.35
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 2.6.35.12 < 2.6.36
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 2.6.37.3 < 2.6.38
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 2.6.38.1 < 5.15.190
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.16 < 6.1.149
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.2 < 6.6.103
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.7 < 6.12.43
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.13 < 6.15.11
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.16 < 6.16.1
LinuxLinux Kernel Version2.6.38 Update-
LinuxLinux Kernel Version2.6.38 Updaterc7
LinuxLinux Kernel Version2.6.38 Updaterc8
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.15% 0.048
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
nvd@nist.gov 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3542c90797bc3ab83ebab54b737d751cf3682036
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f2e467a48287c868818085aa35389a224d226732
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a2125962c42d5336ca0495a9ce4cb38a63e9161
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ea5f97dbdcb1651581a22bd10afd2f0dd9dc11d6
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b13b033062824495554e836a1ff5f85ccf6b039
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a0c0c974bea9619c6f41794775ae4b97530e0e6
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/71379495ab70eaba19224bd71b5b9b399eb85e04
Patch
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html
Third Party Advisory
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-032379.html
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-082556.html