CVE-2025-39836
HIGHLinux Kernel - Out-of-bounds Write in EFI STMM Buffer Allocation
Title source: llmDescription
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().
References (3)
Core 3
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