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CVE-2025-38071 Detail

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/mm: Check return value from memblock_phys_alloc_range() At least with CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x100000, if there is < 4 MiB of contiguous free memory available at this point, the kernel will crash and burn because memblock_phys_alloc_range() returns 0 on failure, which leads memblock_phys_free() to throw the first 4 MiB of physical memory to the wolves. At a minimum it should fail gracefully with a meaningful diagnostic, but in fact everything seems to work fine without the weird reserve allocation.


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Hyperlink Resource
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/631ca8909fd5c62b9fda9edda93924311a78a9c4
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c18c904d301ffeb33b071eadc55cd6131e1e9be
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bffd5f2815c5234d609725cd0dc2f4bc5de2fc67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6f2694c580c27dca0cf7546ee9b4bfa6b940e38
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dde4800d2b0f68b945fd81d4fc2d4a10ae25f743

Weakness Enumeration

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2025-38071
NVD Published Date:
06/18/2025
NVD Last Modified:
06/18/2025
Source:
kernel.org