Bug 2348908 (CVE-2025-21818) - CVE-2025-21818 kernel: x86/xen: fix xen_hypercall_hvm() to not clobber %rbx
Summary: CVE-2025-21818 kernel: x86/xen: fix xen_hypercall_hvm() to not clobber %rbx
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-21818
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-02-27 21:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-06-18 08:20 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-02-27 21:02:46 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

x86/xen: fix xen_hypercall_hvm() to not clobber %rbx

xen_hypercall_hvm(), which is used when running as a Xen PVH guest at
most only once during early boot, is clobbering %rbx. Depending on
whether the caller relies on %rbx to be preserved across the call or
not, this clobbering might result in an early crash of the system.

This can be avoided by using an already saved register instead of %rbx.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-02-28 04:52:34 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025022710-CVE-2025-21818-27ee@gregkh/T

Comment 2 TEJ RATHI 2025-05-15 08:05:39 UTC
This CVE has been rejected upstream: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025030232-REJECTED-daed@gregkh/


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