CVE-2025-37867 RDMA/core: Silence oversized kvmalloc() warning
A local attacker can trigger a kernel warning via RDMA operations, potentially causing system instability or denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-37867?
CVE-2025-37867 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 9 May 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
RDMA/core: Silence oversized kvmalloc() warning
syzkaller triggered an oversized kvmalloc() warning. Silence it by adding __GFP_NOWARN.
syzkaller log: WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 518 at mm/util.c:665 __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x175/0x180 CPU: 7 UID: 0 PID: 518 Comm: c_repro Not tainted 6.11.0-rc6+ #6 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:__kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x175/0x180 RSP: 0018:ffffc90001e67c10 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000100 RBX: 0000000000000400 RCX: ffffffff8149d46b RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff8881030fae80 RDI: 0000000000000002 RBP: 000000712c800000 R08: 0000000000000100 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: ffffc90001e67c10 R11: 0030ae0601000000 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00000000ffffffff R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 00007fde79159740(0000) GS:ffff88813bdc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000020000180 CR3: 0000000105eb4005 CR4: 00000000003706b0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> ib_umem_odp_get+0x1f6/0x390 mlx5_ib_reg_user_mr+0x1e8/0x450 ib_uverbs_reg_mr+0x28b/0x440 ib_uverbs_write+0x7d3/0xa30 vfs_write+0x1ac/0x6c0 ksys_write+0x134/0x170 ? __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc+0x1c/0x50 do_syscall_64+0x50/0x110 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-37867?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel.
How do I fix CVE-2025-37867?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2025-37867 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-37867 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Debian Debian Linux
Sources
Also known as BELL-CVE-2025-37867, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-37867, GHSA-5m63-6f39-c6xq, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2025-37867, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2025-37867, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-37867 and 1 more.