CVE-2025-21991: falha de alta gravidade em Linux
x86/microcode/AMD: Fix out-of-bounds on systems with CPU-less NUMA nodes
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
x86/microcode/AMD: Fix out-of-bounds on systems with CPU-less NUMA nodes
Currently, load_microcode_amd() iterates over all NUMA nodes, retrieves their
CPU masks and unconditionally accesses per-CPU data for the first CPU of each
mask.
According to Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numaperf.rst:
"Some memory may share the same node as a CPU, and others are provided as
memory only nodes."
Therefore, some node CPU masks may be empty and wouldn't have a "first CPU".
On a machine with far memory (and therefore CPU-less NUMA nodes):
- cpumask_of_node(nid) is 0
- cpumask_first(0) is CONFIG_NR_CPUS
- cpu_data(CONFIG_NR_CPUS) accesses the cpu_info per-CPU array at an
index that is 1 out of bounds
This does not have any security implications since flashing microcode is
a privileged operation but I believe this has reliability implications by
potentially corrupting memory while flashing a microcode update.
When booting with CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS=y on an AMD machine that flashes
a microcode update. I get the following splat:
UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c:X:Y
index 512 is out of range for type 'unsigned long[512]'
[...]
Call Trace:
dump_stack
__ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds
load_microcode_amd
request_microcode_amd
reload_store
kernfs_fop_write_iter
vfs_write
ksys_write
do_syscall_64
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe
Change the loop to go over only NUMA nodes which have CPUs before determining
whether the first CPU on the respective node needs microcode update.
[ bp: Massage commit message, fix typo. ]
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Referências
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18b5d857c6496b78ead2fd10001b81ae32d30cachttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/488ffc0cac38f203979f83634236ee53251ce593https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5ac295dfccb5b015493f86694fa13a0dde4d3665https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/985a536e04bbfffb1770df43c6470f635a6b1073https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d509c4731090ebd9bbdb72c70a2d70003ae81f4fhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e3e89178a9f4a80092578af3ff3c8478f9187d59https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e686349cc19e800dac8971929089ba5ff59abfb0https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec52240622c4d218d0240079b7c1d3ec2328a9f4https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00030.htmlhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00045.html