Bug 2405138 (CVE-2025-40008) - CVE-2025-40008 kernel: kmsan: fix out-of-bounds access to shadow memory
Summary: CVE-2025-40008 kernel: kmsan: fix out-of-bounds access to shadow memory
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-40008
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-10-20 17:24 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-11-26 12:46 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-20 17:24:07 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

kmsan: fix out-of-bounds access to shadow memory

Running sha224_kunit on a KMSAN-enabled kernel results in a crash in
kmsan_internal_set_shadow_origin():

    BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffbc3840291000
    #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
    #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
    PGD 1810067 P4D 1810067 PUD 192d067 PMD 3c17067 PTE 0
    Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
    CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 81 Comm: kunit_try_catch Tainted: G                 N  6.17.0-rc3 #10 PREEMPT(voluntary)
    Tainted: [N]=TEST
    Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.17.0-0-gb52ca86e094d-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
    RIP: 0010:kmsan_internal_set_shadow_origin+0x91/0x100
    [...]
    Call Trace:
    <TASK>
    __msan_memset+0xee/0x1a0
    sha224_final+0x9e/0x350
    test_hash_buffer_overruns+0x46f/0x5f0
    ? kmsan_get_shadow_origin_ptr+0x46/0xa0
    ? __pfx_test_hash_buffer_overruns+0x10/0x10
    kunit_try_run_case+0x198/0xa00

This occurs when memset() is called on a buffer that is not 4-byte aligned
and extends to the end of a guard page, i.e.  the next page is unmapped.

The bug is that the loop at the end of kmsan_internal_set_shadow_origin()
accesses the wrong shadow memory bytes when the address is not 4-byte
aligned.  Since each 4 bytes are associated with an origin, it rounds the
address and size so that it can access all the origins that contain the
buffer.  However, when it checks the corresponding shadow bytes for a
particular origin, it incorrectly uses the original unrounded shadow
address.  This results in reads from shadow memory beyond the end of the
buffer's shadow memory, which crashes when that memory is not mapped.

To fix this, correctly align the shadow address before accessing the 4
shadow bytes corresponding to each origin.


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