Bug 2369189 (CVE-2025-37996) - CVE-2025-37996 kernel: KVM: arm64: Fix uninitialized memcache pointer in user_mem_abort()
Summary: CVE-2025-37996 kernel: KVM: arm64: Fix uninitialized memcache pointer in user...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-37996
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-05-29 14:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-19 09:53 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-29 14:01:36 UTC
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.

Comment 1 Jon Moroney 2025-05-29 17:24:36 UTC Comment hidden (spam)

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