CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-38064
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-06-18
- Last modified
- 2026-10-30
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
virtio: break and reset virtio devices on device_shutdown()
Hongyu reported a hang on kexec in a VM. QEMU reported invalid memory
accesses during the hang.
Invalid read at addr 0x102877002, size 2, region '(null)', reason: rejected
Invalid write at addr 0x102877A44, size 2, region '(null)', reason: rejected
...
It was traced down to virtio-console. Kexec works fine if virtio-console
is not in use.
The issue is that virtio-console continues to write to the MMIO even after
underlying virtio-pci device is reset.
Additionally, Eric noticed that IOMMUs are reset before devices, if
devices are not reset on shutdown they continue to poke at guest memory
and get errors from the IOMMU. Some devices get wedged then.
The problem can be solved by breaking all virtio devices on virtio
bus shutdown, then resetting them.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 6.14.9)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c03e32494dd0bbcc301523e5ae567c2f567a7d9 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1eaa83fd94ed5e40d43139025f5acb7bcfed3b5f git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8bd2fa086a04886798b505f28db4002525895203 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/acdfe206be6c70ec55dc8bfdb1a22036d10fae26 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aee42f3d57bfa37b2716df4584edeecf63b9df4c Patch