CVE-2025-39817

HIGH

Linux Kernel < 5.4.298 - Out-of-Bounds Read

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: efivarfs: Fix slab-out-of-bounds in efivarfs_d_compare Observed on kernel 6.6 (present on master as well): BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in memcmp+0x98/0xd0 Call trace: kasan_check_range+0xe8/0x190 __asan_loadN+0x1c/0x28 memcmp+0x98/0xd0 efivarfs_d_compare+0x68/0xd8 __d_lookup_rcu_op_compare+0x178/0x218 __d_lookup_rcu+0x1f8/0x228 d_alloc_parallel+0x150/0x648 lookup_open.isra.0+0x5f0/0x8d0 open_last_lookups+0x264/0x828 path_openat+0x130/0x3f8 do_filp_open+0x114/0x248 do_sys_openat2+0x340/0x3c0 __arm64_sys_openat+0x120/0x1a0 If dentry->d_name.len < EFI_VARIABLE_GUID_LEN , 'guid' can become negative, leadings to oob. The issue can be triggered by parallel lookups using invalid filename: T1 T2 lookup_open ->lookup simple_lookup d_add // invalid dentry is added to hash list lookup_open d_alloc_parallel __d_lookup_rcu __d_lookup_rcu_op_compare hlist_bl_for_each_entry_rcu // invalid dentry can be retrieved ->d_compare efivarfs_d_compare // oob Fix it by checking 'guid' before cmp.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.1
EPSS 0.0002
EPSS Percentile 3.9%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-125
Status published
Products (10)
debian/debian_linux 11.0
linux/Kernel 3.9.0 - 5.4.298linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.191linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.150linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.242linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.16.5linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.104linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.45linux
linux/linux_kernel 6.17 rc1 (3 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 3.8.2 - 5.4.298
Published Sep 16, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026