s390: Disable ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP (Linux Linux)

CVE-2025-68179
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.15 % · percentile 5 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Deferred

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390: Disable ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP As reported by Luiz Capitulino enabling HVO on s390 leads to reproducible crashes. The problem is that kernel page tables are modified without flushing corresponding TLB entries. Even if it looks like the empty flush_tlb_all() implementation on s390 is the problem, it is actually a different problem: on s390 it is not allowed to replace an active/valid page table entry with another valid page table entry without the detour over an invalid entry. A direct replacement may lead to random crashes and/or data corruption. In order to invalidate an entry special instructions have to be used (e.g. ipte or idte). Alternatively there are also special instructions available which allow to replace a valid entry with a different valid entry (e.g. crdte or cspg). Given that the HVO code currently does not provide the hooks to allow for an implementation which is compliant with the s390 architecture requirements, disable ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP again, which is basically a revert of the original patch which enabled it.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 00a34d5a99c0631bd780b14cbe3813d0b39c3886 < 7088465f10816d9425b95740b37c95f082041d76 ; affected 00a34d5a99c0631bd780b14cbe3813d0b39c3886 < 5e23918e4352288323d13fb511116cdea0234b71 ; affected 00a34d5a99c0631bd780b14cbe3813d0b39c3886 < d4a8238e5729505b7394ccb007e5dc3e557aa66b ; affected 00a34d5a99c0631bd780b14cbe3813d0b39c3886 < 64e2f60f355e556337fcffe80b9bcff1b22c9c42
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.2 ; unaffected 0 < 6.2 ; unaffected 6.6.117 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.58 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.17.8 ≤ 6.17.* ; unaffected 6.18 ≤ *

Sources

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CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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