Incomplete Cleanup The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-modules-extra  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS8-KERNELMODULESEXTRA-10081446
  • published9 May 2025
  • disclosed9 May 2025

Introduced: 9 May 2025

CVE-2025-37849  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-459  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-modules-extra package and not the kernel-modules-extra package as distributed by Centos.

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

KVM: arm64: Tear down vGIC on failed vCPU creation

If kvm_arch_vcpu_create() fails to share the vCPU page with the hypervisor, we propagate the error back to the ioctl but leave the vGIC vCPU data initialised. Note only does this leak the corresponding memory when the vCPU is destroyed but it can also lead to use-after-free if the redistributor device handling tries to walk into the vCPU.

Add the missing cleanup to kvm_arch_vcpu_create(), ensuring that the vGIC vCPU structures are destroyed on error.