CVE-2025-23141 (GCVE-0-2025-23141)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-01 12:55 – Updated: 2026-01-02 15:28
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KVM: x86: Acquire SRCU in KVM_GET_MP_STATE to protect guest memory accesses
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: x86: Acquire SRCU in KVM_GET_MP_STATE to protect guest memory accesses Acquire a lock on kvm->srcu when userspace is getting MP state to handle a rather extreme edge case where "accepting" APIC events, i.e. processing pending INIT or SIPI, can trigger accesses to guest memory. If the vCPU is in L2 with INIT *and* a TRIPLE_FAULT request pending, then getting MP state will trigger a nested VM-Exit by way of ->check_nested_events(), and emuating the nested VM-Exit can access guest memory. The splat was originally hit by syzkaller on a Google-internal kernel, and reproduced on an upstream kernel by hacking the triple_fault_event_test selftest to stuff a pending INIT, store an MSR on VM-Exit (to generate a memory access on VMX), and do vcpu_mp_state_get() to trigger the scenario. ============================= WARNING: suspicious RCU usage 6.14.0-rc3-b112d356288b-vmx/pi_lockdep_false_pos-lock #3 Not tainted ----------------------------- include/linux/kvm_host.h:1058 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage! other info that might help us debug this: rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1 1 lock held by triple_fault_ev/1256: #0: ffff88810df5a330 (&vcpu->mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x8b/0x9a0 [kvm] stack backtrace: CPU: 11 UID: 1000 PID: 1256 Comm: triple_fault_ev Not tainted 6.14.0-rc3-b112d356288b-vmx #3 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015 Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x7f/0x90 lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x144/0x190 kvm_vcpu_gfn_to_memslot+0x156/0x180 [kvm] kvm_vcpu_read_guest+0x3e/0x90 [kvm] read_and_check_msr_entry+0x2e/0x180 [kvm_intel] __nested_vmx_vmexit+0x550/0xde0 [kvm_intel] kvm_check_nested_events+0x1b/0x30 [kvm] kvm_apic_accept_events+0x33/0x100 [kvm] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_get_mpstate+0x30/0x1d0 [kvm] kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x33e/0x9a0 [kvm] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x8b/0xb0 do_syscall_64+0x6c/0x170 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53 </TASK>
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Linux Linux Affected: 1c96dcceaeb3a99aaf0d548eef2223e0b02a7e40 , < 0357c8406dfa09430dd9858ebe813feb65524b6e (git)
Affected: 1c96dcceaeb3a99aaf0d548eef2223e0b02a7e40 , < 8a3df0aa1087a89f5ce55f4aba816bfcb1ecf1be (git)
Affected: 1c96dcceaeb3a99aaf0d548eef2223e0b02a7e40 , < 7bc5c360375d28ba5ef6298b0d53e735c81d66a1 (git)
Affected: 1c96dcceaeb3a99aaf0d548eef2223e0b02a7e40 , < f5cbe725b7477b4cd677be1b86b4e08f90572997 (git)
Affected: 1c96dcceaeb3a99aaf0d548eef2223e0b02a7e40 , < 592e040572f216d916f465047c8ce4a308fcca44 (git)
Affected: 1c96dcceaeb3a99aaf0d548eef2223e0b02a7e40 , < ef01cac401f18647d62720cf773d7bb0541827da (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 5.11
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.11 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.135 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.88 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.24 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.13.12 , ≤ 6.13.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.14.3 , ≤ 6.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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