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CVE-2025-37996

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Published: May 29, 2025Modified: Nov 14, 2025

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5.5
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Exploitability: 1.8 / Impact: 3.6
Source: NVD

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: Fix uninitialized memcache pointer in user_mem_abort() Commit fce886a60207 ("KVM: arm64: Plumb the pKVM MMU in KVM") made the initialization of the local memcache variable in user_mem_abort() conditional, leaving a codepath where it is used uninitialized via kvm_pgtable_stage2_map(). This can fail on any path that requires a stage-2 allocation without transition via a permission fault or dirty logging. Fix this by making sure that memcache is always valid.

Affected (6)

Products: Linux: Linux Kernel
1 product
Linux Kernel
Configuration A
6 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Linux
From 6.14 to 6.14.7
Version 6.15 rc1
Version 6.15 rc2
Version 6.15 rc3
Version 6.15 rc4
Version 6.15 rc5

References (2)

Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Patch

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