CVE-2025-21851
LOWLinux Kernel - Denial of Service via Unaligned Address in arena_map_free
Title source: llmDescription
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix softlockup in arena_map_free on 64k page kernel On an aarch64 kernel with CONFIG_PAGE_SIZE_64KB=y, arena_htab tests cause a segmentation fault and soft lockup. The same failure is not observed with 4k pages on aarch64. It turns out arena_map_free() is calling apply_to_existing_page_range() with the address returned by bpf_arena_get_kern_vm_start(). If this address is not page-aligned the code ends up calling apply_to_pte_range() with that unaligned address causing soft lockup. Fix it by round up GUARD_SZ to PAGE_SIZE << 1 so that the division by 2 in bpf_arena_get_kern_vm_start() returns a page-aligned value.
References (3)
Core 3
Scores
CVSS v3
3.3
EPSS
0.0014
EPSS Percentile
4.1%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-667
Status
published
Products (13)
linux/Kernel
6.13.0 - 6.13.5linux
linux/Kernel
6.9.0 - 6.12.17linux
Linux/Linux
< 6.9
Linux/Linux
317460317a02a1af512697e6e964298dedd8a163 - 517e8a7835e8cfb398a0aeb0133de50e31cae32b
Linux/Linux
317460317a02a1af512697e6e964298dedd8a163 - 787d556a3de447e70964a4bdeba9196f62a62b1e
Linux/Linux
317460317a02a1af512697e6e964298dedd8a163 - c1f3f3892d4526f18aaeffdb6068ce861e793ee3
Linux/Linux
6.12.17 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux
6.13.5 - 6.13.*
Linux/Linux
6.14
Linux/Linux
6.9
... and 3 more
Published
Mar 12, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026