GHSA-P4C2-XVQP-V8QJ
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-02-27 03:34 – Updated: 2025-03-06 12:30In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: x86/mmu: Ensure NX huge page recovery thread is alive before waking
When waking a VM's NX huge page recovery thread, ensure the thread is actually alive before trying to wake it. Now that the thread is spawned on-demand during KVM_RUN, a VM without a recovery thread is reachable via the related module params.
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000040 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015 RIP: 0010:vhost_task_wake+0x5/0x10 Call Trace: set_nx_huge_pages+0xcc/0x1e0 [kvm] param_attr_store+0x8a/0xd0 module_attr_store+0x1a/0x30 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x12f/0x1e0 vfs_write+0x233/0x3e0 ksys_write+0x60/0xd0 do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x160 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53 RIP: 0033:0x7f3b52710104 Modules linked in: kvm_intel kvm CR2: 0000000000000040
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2025-21740"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-476"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2025-02-27T03:15:14Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nKVM: x86/mmu: Ensure NX huge page recovery thread is alive before waking\n\nWhen waking a VM\u0027s NX huge page recovery thread, ensure the thread is\nactually alive before trying to wake it. Now that the thread is spawned\non-demand during KVM_RUN, a VM without a recovery thread is reachable via\nthe related module params.\n\n BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000040\n #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode\n #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015\n RIP: 0010:vhost_task_wake+0x5/0x10\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n set_nx_huge_pages+0xcc/0x1e0 [kvm]\n param_attr_store+0x8a/0xd0\n module_attr_store+0x1a/0x30\n kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x12f/0x1e0\n vfs_write+0x233/0x3e0\n ksys_write+0x60/0xd0\n do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x160\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53\n RIP: 0033:0x7f3b52710104\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n Modules linked in: kvm_intel kvm\n CR2: 0000000000000040",
"id": "GHSA-p4c2-xvqp-v8qj",
"modified": "2025-03-06T12:30:41Z",
"published": "2025-02-27T03:34:04Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21740"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b3928b7c896e5a9fb6b1373924adafe8e01a0c6"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43fb96ae78551d7bfa4ecca956b258f085d67c40"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/974f85f1f7eb7dc7fce0988046e06eeccab576a7"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
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