CVE-2025-68802
lowCVSS v3 Base Score
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
0.0%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 94% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Vulnerability Report
Generated by CyberWatcher
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/xe: Limit num_syncs to prevent oversized allocations
The exec and vm_bind ioctl allow userspace to specify an arbitrary
num_syncs value. Without bounds checking, a very large num_syncs
can force an excessively large allocation, leading to kernel warnings
from the page allocator as below.
Introduce DRM_XE_MAX_SYNCS (set to 1024) and reject any request
exceeding this limit.
"
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1217 at mm/page_alloc.c:5124 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x2f8/0x2180 mm/page_alloc.c:5124
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
alloc_pages_mpol+0xe4/0x330 mm/mempolicy.c:2416
___kmalloc_large_node+0xd8/0x110 mm/slub.c:4317
__kmalloc_large_node_noprof+0x18/0xe0 mm/slub.c:4348
__do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:4364 [inline]
__kmalloc_noprof+0x3d4/0x4b0 mm/slub.c:4388
kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:909 [inline]
kmalloc_array_noprof include/linux/slab.h:948 [inline]
xe_exec_ioctl+0xa47/0x1e70 drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_exec.c:158
drm_ioctl_kernel+0x1f1/0x3e0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c:797
drm_ioctl+0x5e7/0xc50 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c:894
xe_drm_ioctl+0x10b/0x170 drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_device.c:224
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:598 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:584 [inline]
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x18b/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:584
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xbb/0x380 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
...
"
v2: Add "Reported-by" and Cc stable kernels.
v3: Change XE_MAX_SYNCS from 64 to 1024. (Matt & Ashutosh)
v4: s/XE_MAX_SYNCS/DRM_XE_MAX_SYNCS/ (Matt)
v5: Do the check at the top of the exec func. (Matt)
(cherry picked from commit b07bac9bd708ec468cd1b8a5fe70ae2ac9b0a11c)
CWE
CWE-1284Affected Products
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9