CVE-2025-21932
CVE-2025-21932CVE-2025-21932
linux / linux_kernel
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm: abort vma_modify() on merge out of memory failure
The remainder of vma_modify() relies upon the vmg state remaining pristine
after a merge attempt.
Usually this is the case, however in the one edge case scenario of a merge
attempt failing not due to the specified range being unmergeable, but
rather due to an out of memory error arising when attempting to commit the
merge, this assumption becomes untrue.
This results in vmg->start, end being modified, and thus the proceeding
attempts to split the VMA will be done with invalid start/end values.
Thankfully, it is likely practically impossible for us to hit this in
reality, as it would require a maple tree node pre-allocation failure that
would likely never happen due to it being 'too small to fail', i.e. the
kernel would simply keep retrying reclaim until it succeeded.
However, this scenario remains theoretically possible, and what we are
doing here is wrong so
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.0 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Last modified | 2026-07-30 |