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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Feb 27, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Mar 6, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: x86/mmu: Ensure NX huge page recovery thread is alive before waking

When waking a VM's NX huge page recovery thread, ensure the thread is
actually alive before trying to wake it. Now that the thread is spawned
on-demand during KVM_RUN, a VM without a recovery thread is reachable via
the related module params.

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000040
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
RIP: 0010:vhost_task_wake+0x5/0x10
Call Trace:

set_nx_huge_pages+0xcc/0x1e0 [kvm]
param_attr_store+0x8a/0xd0
module_attr_store+0x1a/0x30
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x12f/0x1e0
vfs_write+0x233/0x3e0
ksys_write+0x60/0xd0
do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x160
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
RIP: 0033:0x7f3b52710104

Modules linked in: kvm_intel kvm
CR2: 0000000000000040

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Feb 27, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Feb 27, 2025
Last updated Mar 6, 2025

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(18th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2025-21740

GHSA ID

GHSA-p4c2-xvqp-v8qj

Source code

No known source code

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