CVE-2025-22013

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 6.2-6.6.84, 6.7-6.12.20, 6.13-6.13.8 - Unprotected Host FPSIMD/SVE/SME State Exposure via KVM vCPU Load

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: Unconditionally save+flush host FPSIMD/SVE/SME state There are several problems with the way hyp code lazily saves the host's FPSIMD/SVE state, including: * Host SVE being discarded unexpectedly due to inconsistent configuration of TIF_SVE and CPACR_ELx.ZEN. This has been seen to result in QEMU crashes where SVE is used by memmove(), as reported by Eric Auger: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-68997 * Host SVE state is discarded *after* modification by ptrace, which was an unintentional ptrace ABI change introduced with lazy discarding of SVE state. * The host FPMR value can be discarded when running a non-protected VM, where FPMR support is not exposed to a VM, and that VM uses FPSIMD/SVE. In these cases the hyp code does not save the host's FPMR before unbinding the host's FPSIMD/SVE/SME state, leaving a stale value in memory. Avoid these by eagerly saving and "flushing" the host's FPSIMD/SVE/SME state when loading a vCPU such that KVM does not need to save any of the host's FPSIMD/SVE/SME state. For clarity, fpsimd_kvm_prepare() is removed and the necessary call to fpsimd_save_and_flush_cpu_state() is placed in kvm_arch_vcpu_load_fp(). As 'fpsimd_state' and 'fpmr_ptr' should not be used, they are set to NULL; all uses of these will be removed in subsequent patches. Historical problems go back at least as far as v5.17, e.g. erroneous assumptions about TIF_SVE being clear in commit: 8383741ab2e773a9 ("KVM: arm64: Get rid of host SVE tracking/saving") ... and so this eager save+flush probably needs to be backported to ALL stable trees.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0018
EPSS Percentile 8.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (17)
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.13.9linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.85linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.21linux
Linux/Linux < 6.2
Linux/Linux 6.12.21 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.13.9 - 6.13.*
Linux/Linux 6.14
Linux/Linux 6.2
Linux/Linux 6.6.85 - 6.6.*
Linux/Linux 93ae6b01bafee8fa385aa25ee7ebdb40057f6abe - 79e140bba70bcacc5fe15bf8c0b958793fd7d56f
... and 7 more
Published Apr 08, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026