CVE-2025-39836

HIGH

Linux Kernel - Out-of-bounds Write in EFI STMM Buffer Allocation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: efi: stmm: Fix incorrect buffer allocation method The communication buffer allocated by setup_mm_hdr() is later on passed to tee_shm_register_kernel_buf(). The latter expects those buffers to be contiguous pages, but setup_mm_hdr() just uses kmalloc(). That can cause various corruptions or BUGs, specifically since commit 9aec2fb0fd5e ("slab: allocate frozen pages"), though it was broken before as well. Fix this by using alloc_pages_exact() instead of kmalloc().

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0014
EPSS Percentile 3.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-787
Status published
Products (12)
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.16.5linux
linux/Kernel 6.8.0 - 6.12.45linux
Linux/Linux < 6.8
Linux/Linux 6.12.45 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.16.5 - 6.16.*
Linux/Linux 6.17
Linux/Linux 6.8
Linux/Linux c44b6be62e8dd4ee0a308c36a70620613e6fc55f - 630c0e6064daf84f17aad1a7d9ca76b562e3fe47
Linux/Linux c44b6be62e8dd4ee0a308c36a70620613e6fc55f - 77ff27ff0e4529a003c8a1c2492c111968c378d3
Linux/Linux c44b6be62e8dd4ee0a308c36a70620613e6fc55f - c5e81e672699e0c5557b2b755cc8f7a69aa92bff
... and 2 more
Published Sep 16, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026