CVE-2025-71139

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-71139
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-71139.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-71139
Downstream
Published
2026-01-14T15:07:52Z
Modified
2026-08-12T03:51:26Z
Summary
kernel/kexec: fix IMA when allocation happens in CMA area
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

kernel/kexec: fix IMA when allocation happens in CMA area

*** Bug description ***

When I tested kexec with the latest kernel, I ran into the following warning:

[ 40.712410] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 40.712576] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1562 at kernel/kexec_core.c:1001 kimage_map_segment+0x144/0x198 [...] [ 40.816047] Call trace: [ 40.818498] kimage_map_segment+0x144/0x198 (P) [ 40.823221] ima_kexec_post_load+0x58/0xc0 [ 40.827246] __do_sys_kexec_file_load+0x29c/0x368 [...] [ 40.855423] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

*** How to reproduce ***

This bug is only triggered when the kexec target address is allocated in the CMA area. If no CMA area is reserved in the kernel, use the "cma=" option in the kernel command line to reserve one.

*** Root cause *** The commit 07d24902977e ("kexec: enable CMA based contiguous allocation") allocates the kexec target address directly on the CMA area to avoid copying during the jump. In this case, there is no IND_SOURCE for the kexec segment. But the current implementation of kimage_map_segment() assumes that IND_SOURCE pages exist and map them into a contiguous virtual address by vmap().

*** Solution *** If IMA segment is allocated in the CMA area, use its page_address() directly.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/71xxx/CVE-2025-71139.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
07d24902977e4704fab8472981e73a0ad6dfa1fd
Fixed
a843e4155c83211c55b1b6cc17eab27a6a2c5b6f
Fixed
a3785ae5d334bb71d47a593d54c686a03fb9d136

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-71139.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.17.0
Fixed
6.18.4

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-71139.json"