vulnerability
Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2025-37960): Linux kernel vulnerabilities
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | May 20, 2025 | Jun 26, 2025 | Mar 27, 2026 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
memblock: Accept allocated memory before use in memblock_double_array()
When increasing the array size in memblock_double_array() and the slab
is not yet available, a call to memblock_find_in_range() is used to
reserve/allocate memory. However, the range returned may not have been
accepted, which can result in a crash when booting an SNP guest:
RIP: 0010:memcpy_orig+0x68/0x130
Code: ...
RSP: 0000:ffffffff9cc03ce8 EFLAGS: 00010006
RAX: ff11001ff83e5000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: fffffffffffff000
RDX: 0000000000000bc0 RSI: ffffffff9dba8860 RDI: ff11001ff83e5c00
RBP: 0000000000002000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000002000
R10: 000000207fffe000 R11: 0000040000000000 R12: ffffffff9d06ef78
R13: ff11001ff83e5000 R14: ffffffff9dba7c60 R15: 0000000000000c00
memblock_double_array+0xff/0x310
memblock_add_range+0x1fb/0x2f0
memblock_reserve+0x4f/0xa0
memblock_alloc_range_nid+0xac/0x130
memblock_alloc_internal+0x53/0xc0
memblock_alloc_try_nid+0x3d/0xa0
swiotlb_init_remap+0x149/0x2f0
mem_init+0xb/0xb0
mm_core_init+0x8f/0x350
start_kernel+0x17e/0x5d0
x86_64_start_reservations+0x14/0x30
x86_64_start_kernel+0x92/0xa0
secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0x194/0x19b
Mitigate this by calling accept_memory() on the memory range returned
before the slab is available.
Prior to v6.12, the accept_memory() interface used a 'start' and 'end'
parameter instead of 'start' and 'size', therefore the accept_memory()
call must be adjusted to specify 'start + size' for 'end' when applying
to kernels prior to v6.12.
Solutions
References
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