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Ubuntu: USN-7521-1 (CVE-2025-21713): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-7521-1 (CVE-2025-21713): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
02/27/2025
Created
05/22/2025
Added
05/21/2025
Modified
05/22/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/pseries/iommu: Don't unset window if it was never set On pSeries, when user attempts to use the same vfio container used by different iommu group, the spapr_tce_set_window() returns -EPERM and the subsequent cleanup leads to the below crash. Kernel attempted to read user page (308) - exploit attempt? BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000308 Faulting instruction address: 0xc0000000001ce358 Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] NIP: c0000000001ce358 LR: c0000000001ce05c CTR: c00000000005add0 <snip> NIP [c0000000001ce358] spapr_tce_unset_window+0x3b8/0x510 LR [c0000000001ce05c] spapr_tce_unset_window+0xbc/0x510 Call Trace: spapr_tce_unset_window+0xbc/0x510 (unreliable) tce_iommu_attach_group+0x24c/0x340 [vfio_iommu_spapr_tce] vfio_container_attach_group+0xec/0x240 [vfio] vfio_group_fops_unl_ioctl+0x548/0xb00 [vfio] sys_ioctl+0x754/0x1580 system_call_exception+0x13c/0x330 system_call_vectored_common+0x15c/0x2ec <snip> --- interrupt: 3000 Fix this by having null check for the tbl passed to the spapr_tce_unset_window().

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-11-0-1010-realtime
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-11-0-1013-raspi
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-11-0-1015-azure
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-11-0-1015-azure-fde
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-11-0-1015-gcp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-11-0-1015-gcp-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-11-0-1022-oem
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-11-0-26-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-11-0-26-generic-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure-fde
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gcp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gcp-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-64k-hwe-24-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-hwe-24-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-24-04b
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-raspi
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-realtime
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual-hwe-24-04

References

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