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CVE-2025-68179
published 2025-12-16

CVE-2025-68179: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390: Disable ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP As reported by Luiz Capitulino enabling…

PriorityP339high7.8CVSS 3.1
AVLACLPRLUINSUCHIHAH
EPSS
0.13%
3.3th percentile
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390: Disable ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP As reported by Luiz Capitulino enabling HVO on s390 leads to reproducible crashes. The problem is that kernel page tables are modified without flushing corresponding TLB entries. Even if it looks like the empty flush_tlb_all() implementation on s390 is the problem, it is actually a different problem: on s390 it is not allowed to replace an active/valid page table entry with another valid page table entry without the detour over an invalid entry. A direct replacement may lead to random crashes and/or data corruption. In order to invalidate an entry special instructions have to be used (e.g. ipte or idte). Alternatively there are also special instructions available which allow to replace a valid entry with a different valid entry (e.g. crdte or cspg). Given that the HVO code currently does not provide the hooks to allow for an implementation which is compliant with the s390 architecture requirements, disable ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP again, which is basically a revert of the original patch which enabled it.

Affected

16 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianlinux< linux 6.17.8-1 (forky)linux 6.17.8-1 (forky)
linuxlinux
linuxlinux>= 00a34d5a99c0631bd780b14cbe3813d0b39c3886 < 7088465f10816d9425b95740b37c95f082041d767088465f10816d9425b95740b37c95f082041d76
linuxlinux>= 00a34d5a99c0631bd780b14cbe3813d0b39c3886 < 5e23918e4352288323d13fb511116cdea0234b715e23918e4352288323d13fb511116cdea0234b71
linuxlinux>= 00a34d5a99c0631bd780b14cbe3813d0b39c3886 < d4a8238e5729505b7394ccb007e5dc3e557aa66bd4a8238e5729505b7394ccb007e5dc3e557aa66b
linuxlinux>= 00a34d5a99c0631bd780b14cbe3813d0b39c3886 < 64e2f60f355e556337fcffe80b9bcff1b22c9c4264e2f60f355e556337fcffe80b9bcff1b22c9c42
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.12.63-16.12.63-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.17.8-16.17.8-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.8.0-106.1066.8.0-106.106
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.17.0-14.146.17.0-14.14
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.13.0 < 6.17.86.17.8
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.2.0 < 6.6.1176.6.117
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.7.0 < 6.12.586.12.58
ubuntulinux-aws
ubuntulinux-oracle
ubuntulinux-xilinx

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.17.8HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
osv3.2LOW
vendor_ubuntu7.8HIGH
vendor_redhat5.5MEDIUM
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