CVE-2025-37996

MEDIUM

Linux kernel - Uninitialized Memcache Pointer

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: Fix uninitialized memcache pointer in user_mem_abort() Commit fce886a60207 ("KVM: arm64: Plumb the pKVM MMU in KVM") made the initialization of the local memcache variable in user_mem_abort() conditional, leaving a codepath where it is used uninitialized via kvm_pgtable_stage2_map(). This can fail on any path that requires a stage-2 allocation without transition via a permission fault or dirty logging. Fix this by making sure that memcache is always valid.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0007
EPSS Percentile 22.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-908
Status published
Products (3)
linux/Kernel 6.14.0 - 6.14.7linux
linux/linux_kernel 6.15 rc1 (5 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 6.14 - 6.14.7
Published May 29, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026