vulnerability
Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2025-21713): Linux kernel vulnerabilities
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Feb 27, 2025 | May 21, 2025 | May 29, 2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
powerpc/pseries/iommu: Don't unset window if it was never set
On pSeries, when user attempts to use the same vfio container used by
different iommu group, the spapr_tce_set_window() returns -EPERM
and the subsequent cleanup leads to the below crash.
Kernel attempted to read user page (308) - exploit attempt?
BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000308
Faulting instruction address: 0xc0000000001ce358
Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
NIP: c0000000001ce358 LR: c0000000001ce05c CTR: c00000000005add0
NIP [c0000000001ce358] spapr_tce_unset_window+0x3b8/0x510
LR [c0000000001ce05c] spapr_tce_unset_window+0xbc/0x510
Call Trace:
spapr_tce_unset_window+0xbc/0x510 (unreliable)
tce_iommu_attach_group+0x24c/0x340 [vfio_iommu_spapr_tce]
vfio_container_attach_group+0xec/0x240 [vfio]
vfio_group_fops_unl_ioctl+0x548/0xb00 [vfio]
sys_ioctl+0x754/0x1580
system_call_exception+0x13c/0x330
system_call_vectored_common+0x15c/0x2ec
--- interrupt: 3000
Fix this by having null check for the tbl passed to the
spapr_tce_unset_window().
Solution(s)
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