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CVE-2025-37761

HIGH · 7.1 CVSS v3.1 Published 2025-05-01
Fix available
A fix is available. Upgrade to 6.12.25 / 6.14.4 or later.
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73/100
Remediation priority · Elevated
Zero-click Patch available

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe: Fix an out-of-bounds shift when invalidating TLB When the size of the range invalidated is larger than rounddown_pow_of_two(ULONG_MAX), The function macro roundup_pow_of_two(length) will hit an out-of-bounds shift [1]. Use a full TLB invalidation for such cases. v2: - Use a define for the range size limit over which we use a full TLB invalidation. (Lucas) - Use a better calculation of the limit. [1]: [ 39.202421] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 39.202657] UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in ./include/linux/log2.h:57:13 [ 39.202673] shift exponent 64 is too large for 64-bit type 'long unsigned int' [ 39.202688] CPU: 8 UID: 0 PID: 3129 Comm: xe_exec_system_ Tainted: G U 6.14.0+ #10 [ 39.202690] Tainted: [U]=USER [ 39.202690] Hardware name: ASUS System Product Name/PRIME B560M-A AC, BIOS 2001 02/01/2023 [ 39.202691] Call Trace: [ 39.202692] <TASK> [ 39.202695] dump_stack_lvl+0x6e/0xa0 [ 39.202699] ubsan_epilogue+0x5/0x30 [ 39.202701] __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds.cold+0x61/0xe6 [ 39.202705] xe_gt_tlb_invalidation_range.cold+0x1d/0x3a [xe] [ 39.202800] ? find_held_lock+0x2b/0x80 [ 39.202803] ? mark_held_locks+0x40/0x70 [ 39.202806] xe_svm_invalidate+0x459/0x700 [xe] [ 39.202897] drm_gpusvm_notifier_invalidate+0x4d/0x70 [drm_gpusvm] [ 39.202900] __mmu_notifier_release+0x1f5/0x270 [ 39.202905] exit_mmap+0x40e/0x450 [ 39.202912] __mmput+0x45/0x110 [ 39.202914] exit_mm+0xc5/0x130 [ 39.202916] do_exit+0x21c/0x500 [ 39.202918] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0xdb/0x190 [ 39.202920] do_group_exit+0x36/0xa0 [ 39.202922] get_signal+0x8f8/0x900 [ 39.202926] arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x35/0x100 [ 39.202930] syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1fc/0x290 [ 39.202932] do_syscall_64+0xa1/0x180 [ 39.202934] ? do_user_addr_fault+0x59f/0x8a0 [ 39.202937] ? lock_release+0xd2/0x2a0 [ 39.202939] ? do_user_addr_fault+0x5a9/0x8a0 [ 39.202942] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0x4b/0xc0 [ 39.202944] ? clear_bhb_loop+0x25/0x80 [ 39.202946] ? clear_bhb_loop+0x25/0x80 [ 39.202947] ? clear_bhb_loop+0x25/0x80 [ 39.202950] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e [ 39.202952] RIP: 0033:0x7fa945e543e1 [ 39.202961] Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0x7fa945e543b7. [ 39.202962] RSP: 002b:00007ffca8fb4170 EFLAGS: 00000293 [ 39.202963] RAX: 000000000000003d RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007fa945e543e3 [ 39.202964] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007ffca8fb41ac RDI: 00000000ffffffff [ 39.202964] RBP: 00007ffca8fb4190 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00007fa945f600a0 [ 39.202965] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000293 R12: 0000000000000000 [ 39.202966] R13: 00007fa9460dd310 R14: 00007ffca8fb41ac R15: 0000000000000000 [ 39.202970] </TASK> [ 39.202970] ---[ end trace ]--- (cherry picked from commit b88f48f86500bc0b44b4f73ac66d500a40d320ad)

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

dbcve analysis
How this class of weakness works · CWE-125

The code reads past the end (or before the start) of a buffer, returning memory that was never meant to be exposed. Attackers use it to leak secrets like keys or to defeat memory-protection defences. Remediation is validating indices and lengths before every read.

General guidance for the out-of-bounds read class — the official description and references above are authoritative for this specific CVE. Want a bespoke review and a reviewed fix? Ask our team →

Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.

NVD · CPE data
Linux KernelOperating system
Affected:>= 6.8, < 6.12.25>= 6.13, < 6.14.4= 6.15

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
High

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

Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.

dbcve · scoped
Upgrade available Upgrade to 6.12.25 / 6.14.4 or later
Fixed in 6.12.256.14.4
Vendor patch git.kernel.org →
Recommended fix High confidence

6.12.25+ or 6.14.4+ (depending on which stable branch the distribution follows)

  1. Identify the current running kernel version using `uname -r`
  2. Check if the system uses the drm/xe driver (Intel GPUs) by examining `lspci | grep -i vga` or checking for xe kernel module with `lsmod | grep xe`
  3. Upgrade the Linux kernel to version 6.12.25 or later for the 6.12.y stable branch
  4. Alternatively, upgrade to version 6.14.4 or later for the 6.14.y stable branch
  5. For distributions using kernel 6.15 or later, ensure the patch commit 28477f701b63922ff88e9fb13f5519c11cd48b86 is included in the deployed kernel
  6. After kernel upgrade, reboot the system to load the fixed kernel
  7. Verify the fix is applied by checking the kernel version and confirming no UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds warnings appear in dmesg
Caveat Kernel upgrades may require system reboot and could introduce compatibility issues with proprietary kernel modules or specific hardware drivers; ensure backups and test in staging if possible

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