CVE-2025-21815Out-of-bounds Read in Linux

Severity
7.1HIGHNVD
OSV7.8OSV5.9OSV5.5
EPSS
0.0%
top 94.67%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedFeb 27
Latest updateSep 3

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/compaction: fix UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds warning syzkaller reported a UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds warning of (1UL << order) in isolate_freepages_block(). The bogus compound_order can be any value because it is union with flags. Add back the MAX_PAGE_ORDER check to fix the warning.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.2

Affected Packages5 packages

NVDlinux/linux_kernel6.76.12.14+1
Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 6.12.15-1+1
Ubuntulinux/linux_kernel< 6.8.0-64.67
CVEListV5linux/linux3da0272a4c7d0d37b47b28e87014f421296fc2be4491159774d973a9e2e998d25d8fbb20fada6dfa+3
debiandebian/linux< linux 6.12.15-1 (forky)

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

14
OSV
linux-azure, linux-azure-6.8, linux-azure-nvidia vulnerabilities2025-09-03
OSV
linux-raspi vulnerabilities2025-07-24
OSV
linux-raspi-realtime vulnerabilities2025-07-24
OSV
linux-gcp, linux-gcp-6.8 vulnerabilities2025-07-22
OSV
linux-aws-6.8, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-6.8, linux-nvidia-lowlatency, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-6.8 vulnerabilities2025-07-22

📋Vendor Advisories

14
Ubuntu
Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities2025-09-03
Ubuntu
Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi Real-time) vulnerabilities2025-07-24
Ubuntu
Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi) vulnerabilities2025-07-24
Ubuntu
Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities2025-07-22
Ubuntu
Linux kernel vulnerabilities2025-07-22
CVE-2025-21815 — Out-of-bounds Read in Linux | cvebase