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CVE-2025-37867

MEDIUM · 5.5 CVSS v3.1 Published 2025-05-09
Fix available
A fix is available. Upgrade to 5.10.237 / 5.15.181 or later.
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57/100
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: RDMA/core: Silence oversized kvmalloc() warning syzkaller triggered an oversized kvmalloc() warning. Silence it by adding __GFP_NOWARN. syzkaller log: WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 518 at mm/util.c:665 __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x175/0x180 CPU: 7 UID: 0 PID: 518 Comm: c_repro Not tainted 6.11.0-rc6+ #6 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:__kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x175/0x180 RSP: 0018:ffffc90001e67c10 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000100 RBX: 0000000000000400 RCX: ffffffff8149d46b RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff8881030fae80 RDI: 0000000000000002 RBP: 000000712c800000 R08: 0000000000000100 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: ffffc90001e67c10 R11: 0030ae0601000000 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00000000ffffffff R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 00007fde79159740(0000) GS:ffff88813bdc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000020000180 CR3: 0000000105eb4005 CR4: 00000000003706b0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> ib_umem_odp_get+0x1f6/0x390 mlx5_ib_reg_user_mr+0x1e8/0x450 ib_uverbs_reg_mr+0x28b/0x440 ib_uverbs_write+0x7d3/0xa30 vfs_write+0x1ac/0x6c0 ksys_write+0x134/0x170 ? __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc+0x1c/0x50 do_syscall_64+0x50/0x110 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

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.

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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:>= 5.4, < 5.10.237>= 5.11, < 5.15.181>= 5.16, < 6.1.135>= 6.2, < 6.6.88>= 6.7, < 6.12.25>= 6.13, < 6.14.4= 6.15
Debian LinuxOperating system
Affected:= 11.0

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
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/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 5.10.237 / 5.15.181 / 6.1.135 or later
Fixed in 5.10.2375.15.1816.1.135
Vendor patch git.kernel.org →
Recommended fix High confidence

Linux kernel >= 5.10.237, >= 5.15.181, >= 6.1.135, or >= 6.6.88 (depending on your branch); Debian 11.0 update to latest available kernel

  1. Identify your current Linux kernel version using 'uname -r' or 'cat /proc/version'
  2. Determine which kernel branch your version belongs to (5.4-5.10, 5.11-5.15, 5.16-6.1, or 6.2-6.6)
  3. For Debian 11 (Bullseye), check available kernel updates via 'apt update && apt-cache policy linux-image-*'
  4. Upgrade to a patched kernel version: for 5.10.x branch use >=5.10.237, for 5.15.x branch use >=5.15.181, for 6.1.x branch use >=6.1.135, for 6.6.x branch use >=6.6.88
  5. Reboot the system to load the new kernel
  6. Verify the new kernel version is running with 'uname -r'
Caveat Kernel upgrades may require driver/rebuild revalidation; ensure critical out-of-tree modules are compatible with the target version

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