Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 16, 2025· Updated Jan 14, 2026
efi: stmm: Fix incorrect buffer allocation method
CVE-2025-39836
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
efi: stmm: Fix incorrect buffer allocation method
The communication buffer allocated by setup_mm_hdr() is later on passed to tee_shm_register_kernel_buf(). The latter expects those buffers to be contiguous pages, but setup_mm_hdr() just uses kmalloc(). That can cause various corruptions or BUGs, specifically since commit 9aec2fb0fd5e ("slab: allocate frozen pages"), though it was broken before as well.
Fix this by using alloc_pages_exact() instead of kmalloc().
Affected products
2- Linux/Linuxv5Range: 6.8
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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