CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-38690

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.14%

3th percentile - higher than 3% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel's drm/xe/migrate driver, infinite recursion occurs when the stack-allocated bounce buffer is not aligned to XE_CACHELINE_BYTES, causing repeated function calls and stack overflow. The fix replaces the stack buffer with kmalloc respecting power-of-two alignment.

Risk Assessment

May cause kernel panic (stack overflow) on Intel Xe platforms, leading to denial of service.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that uses kmalloc instead of a stack buffer in xe_migrate.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe/migrate: prevent infinite recursion If the buf + offset is not aligned to XE_CAHELINE_BYTES we fallback to using a bounce buffer. However the bounce buffer here is allocated on the stack, and the only alignment requirement here is that it's naturally aligned to u8, and not XE_CACHELINE_BYTES. If the bounce buffer is also misaligned we then recurse back into the function again, however the new bounce buffer might also not be aligned, and might never be until we eventually blow through the stack, as we keep recursing. Instead of using the stack use kmalloc, which should respect the power-of-two alignment request here. Fixes a kernel panic when triggering this path through eudebug. v2 (Stuart): - Add build bug check for power-of-two restriction - s/EINVAL/ENOMEM/ (cherry picked from commit 38b34e928a08ba594c4bbf7118aa3aadacd62fff)

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