fkie_cve-2025-38071
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2025-06-18 10:15
Modified
2025-06-18 13:46
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/mm: Check return value from memblock_phys_alloc_range() At least with CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x100000, if there is < 4 MiB of contiguous free memory available at this point, the kernel will crash and burn because memblock_phys_alloc_range() returns 0 on failure, which leads memblock_phys_free() to throw the first 4 MiB of physical memory to the wolves. At a minimum it should fail gracefully with a meaningful diagnostic, but in fact everything seems to work fine without the weird reserve allocation.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/631ca8909fd5c62b9fda9edda93924311a78a9c4
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c18c904d301ffeb33b071eadc55cd6131e1e9be
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bffd5f2815c5234d609725cd0dc2f4bc5de2fc67
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6f2694c580c27dca0cf7546ee9b4bfa6b940e38
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dde4800d2b0f68b945fd81d4fc2d4a10ae25f743
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{
  "cveTags": [],
  "descriptions": [
    {
      "lang": "en",
      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nx86/mm: Check return value from memblock_phys_alloc_range()\n\nAt least with CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x100000, if there is \u003c 4 MiB of\ncontiguous free memory available at this point, the kernel will crash\nand burn because memblock_phys_alloc_range() returns 0 on failure,\nwhich leads memblock_phys_free() to throw the first 4 MiB of physical\nmemory to the wolves.\n\nAt a minimum it should fail gracefully with a meaningful diagnostic,\nbut in fact everything seems to work fine without the weird reserve\nallocation."
    },
    {
      "lang": "es",
      "value": "En el kernel de Linux, se ha resuelto la siguiente vulnerabilidad: x86/mm: Verificar el valor de retorno de memblock_phys_alloc_range(). Al menos con CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x100000, si hay \u0026lt; 4 MiB de memoria libre contigua disponible en este punto, el kernel se bloquear\u00e1 porque memblock_phys_alloc_range() devuelve 0 en caso de fallo, lo que provoca que memblock_phys_free() descarte los primeros 4 MiB de memoria f\u00edsica. Como m\u00ednimo, deber\u00eda fallar correctamente con un diagn\u00f3stico significativo, pero de hecho todo parece funcionar correctamente sin la extra\u00f1a asignaci\u00f3n de reserva."
    }
  ],
  "id": "CVE-2025-38071",
  "lastModified": "2025-06-18T13:46:52.973",
  "metrics": {},
  "published": "2025-06-18T10:15:40.450",
  "references": [
    {
      "source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/631ca8909fd5c62b9fda9edda93924311a78a9c4"
    },
    {
      "source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c18c904d301ffeb33b071eadc55cd6131e1e9be"
    },
    {
      "source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bffd5f2815c5234d609725cd0dc2f4bc5de2fc67"
    },
    {
      "source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
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    },
    {
      "source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dde4800d2b0f68b945fd81d4fc2d4a10ae25f743"
    }
  ],
  "sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
  "vulnStatus": "Awaiting Analysis"
}


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