CVE-2025-22118 (GCVE-0-2025-22118)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-04-16 14:13
Modified
2026-08-05 11:56
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ice: validate queue quanta parameters to prevent OOB access Add queue wraparound prevention in quanta configuration. Ensure end_qid does not overflow by validating start_qid and num_queues.
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Linux Linux Version: 015307754a19832dd665295f6c123289b0f37ba6
Version: 015307754a19832dd665295f6c123289b0f37ba6
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              "value": "AV:L - The malicious input is a virtchnl `VIRTCHNL_OP_CONFIG_QUANTA` message delivered over the SR-IOV PF/VF mailbox on the PCIe bus, not over any network protocol; the attacker must be executing code in a guest VM (or container) that owns an assigned ice VF.\nAC:L - Both `start_queue_id` and `num_queues` are attacker-supplied `u16` fields with no timing, race, or memory-layout dependency, and the required `VIRTCHNL_VF_OFFLOAD_QOS` capability is granted by the PF solely on the VF\u0027s own request, so the condition is triggered deterministically on the first message.\nPR:L - The attacker needs no privileges on the host at all \u2014 only the ability to drive an already-assigned VF\u0027s mailbox from inside its own security domain (guest kernel/VF driver), which is the baseline privilege level of any SR-IOV tenant.\nUI:N - The PF processes VF mailbox messages asynchronously from the service task with no host administrator or user action required.\nS:C - SR-IOV is a security boundary: the vulnerable PF driver enforces isolation of untrusted VF tenants, and a VF corrupting host kernel memory impacts the host OS, a separate security authority from the guest \u2014 the same pattern as a guest-to-host escape.\nC:H - The vendor-characterized out-of-bounds access reads a ring pointer from beyond the `tx_rings[]` array, and such heap corruption in the host kernel can be leveraged to disclose arbitrary host memory across the guest/host boundary.\nI:H - The claimed OOB access writes an attacker-influenced `quanta_prof_id` through a pointer sourced from past the end of `vsi-\u003etx_rings[]`, giving a write primitive into host kernel memory usable for control-flow hijack.\nA:H - Dereferencing an out-of-bounds ring pointer in host kernel context oopses or panics the hypervisor host, and the message can be replayed repeatedly by the VF."
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