Bug 2395805 (CVE-2025-39817)
| Summary: | CVE-2025-39817 kernel: efivarfs: Fix slab-out-of-bounds in efivarfs_d_compare | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev> |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | unspecified | Keywords: | Security |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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A slab-out-of-bounds exists in the linux kernel in efivarfs_d_compare, such that the issue can be triggered by parallel lookups using an invalid filename due to an incorrect memcmp function.
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Upstream advisory: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025091615-CVE-2025-39817-90b7@gregkh/T This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Via RHSA-2025:18281 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:18281 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Via RHSA-2025:18318 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:18318 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Via RHSA-2025:19103 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19103 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Via RHSA-2025:19102 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19102 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Via RHSA-2025:21112 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21112 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Via RHSA-2025:21118 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21118 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support Via RHSA-2025:21760 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21760 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions Via RHSA-2025:22066 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22066 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Update Services for SAP Solutions Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Telecommunications Update Service Via RHSA-2025:22072 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22072 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions Via RHSA-2025:22087 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22087 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions Via RHSA-2025:22095 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22095 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions Via RHSA-2025:22124 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22124 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support Via RHSA-2025:23445 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:23445 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On Via RHSA-2026:0533 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:0533 |
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: efivarfs: Fix slab-out-of-bounds in efivarfs_d_compare Observed on kernel 6.6 (present on master as well): BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in memcmp+0x98/0xd0 Call trace: kasan_check_range+0xe8/0x190 __asan_loadN+0x1c/0x28 memcmp+0x98/0xd0 efivarfs_d_compare+0x68/0xd8 __d_lookup_rcu_op_compare+0x178/0x218 __d_lookup_rcu+0x1f8/0x228 d_alloc_parallel+0x150/0x648 lookup_open.isra.0+0x5f0/0x8d0 open_last_lookups+0x264/0x828 path_openat+0x130/0x3f8 do_filp_open+0x114/0x248 do_sys_openat2+0x340/0x3c0 __arm64_sys_openat+0x120/0x1a0 If dentry->d_name.len < EFI_VARIABLE_GUID_LEN , 'guid' can become negative, leadings to oob. The issue can be triggered by parallel lookups using invalid filename: T1 T2 lookup_open ->lookup simple_lookup d_add // invalid dentry is added to hash list lookup_open d_alloc_parallel __d_lookup_rcu __d_lookup_rcu_op_compare hlist_bl_for_each_entry_rcu // invalid dentry can be retrieved ->d_compare efivarfs_d_compare // oob Fix it by checking 'guid' before cmp.