PT-2025-18441 · Linux+3 · Linux Kernel+3
Published
2025-03-21
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Updated
2026-01-26
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CVE-2025-37760
CVSS v3.1
5.5
Medium
| Vector | AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)
Description
A vulnerability in the Linux kernel has been resolved. The issue was related to the handling of Out-of-Memory (OOM) conditions during VMA merge operations. In certain cases, the caller did not mind if the merge failed due to an OOM condition, but the kernel did not provide a way to handle this situation explicitly. To address this, a 'give up on oom' option was added to allow the caller to specify that the operation should bail out if an OOM condition arises. This change was motivated by a issue found in the uffd release code, where an injected fault on allocation could trigger an OOM condition, causing the code to become confused and treat an error value as a VMA pointer.
Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
Exploit
Allocation of Resources Without Limits
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Weakness Enumeration
Related Identifiers
Affected Products
Astra Linux
Linux Kernel
Red Os
Ubuntu