CVE-2025-37996

MediumCVSS 5.5/10Last modified Jul 30, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 5.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-908

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
May 29, 2025
Last modified
Jul 30, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2025-37996: Medium severity, CVSS 5.5 | Vulnix