CVE-2025-71139

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 6.17-6.18.3 - Denial of Service via CMA Allocation in kexec

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kernel/kexec: fix IMA when allocation happens in CMA area *** Bug description *** When I tested kexec with the latest kernel, I ran into the following warning: [ 40.712410] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 40.712576] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1562 at kernel/kexec_core.c:1001 kimage_map_segment+0x144/0x198 [...] [ 40.816047] Call trace: [ 40.818498] kimage_map_segment+0x144/0x198 (P) [ 40.823221] ima_kexec_post_load+0x58/0xc0 [ 40.827246] __do_sys_kexec_file_load+0x29c/0x368 [...] [ 40.855423] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- *** How to reproduce *** This bug is only triggered when the kexec target address is allocated in the CMA area. If no CMA area is reserved in the kernel, use the "cma=" option in the kernel command line to reserve one. *** Root cause *** The commit 07d24902977e ("kexec: enable CMA based contiguous allocation") allocates the kexec target address directly on the CMA area to avoid copying during the jump. In this case, there is no IND_SOURCE for the kexec segment. But the current implementation of kimage_map_segment() assumes that IND_SOURCE pages exist and map them into a contiguous virtual address by vmap(). *** Solution *** If IMA segment is allocated in the CMA area, use its page_address() directly.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 7.3%
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 (10)
linux/Kernel 6.17.0 - 6.18.4linux
Linux/Linux < 6.17
Linux/Linux 07d24902977e4704fab8472981e73a0ad6dfa1fd - a3785ae5d334bb71d47a593d54c686a03fb9d136
Linux/Linux 07d24902977e4704fab8472981e73a0ad6dfa1fd - a843e4155c83211c55b1b6cc17eab27a6a2c5b6f
Linux/Linux 6.17
Linux/Linux 6.18.4 - 6.18.*
Linux/Linux 6.19
linux/linux_kernel 6.17
linux/linux_kernel 6.19 rc1 (8 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 6.17.1 - 6.18.4
Published Jan 14, 2026
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026