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tee: fix register_shm_helper()

Type: advisorySources: OSV

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tee: fix register_shm_helper() In register_shm_helper(), fix incorrect error handling for a call to iov_iter_extract_pages(). A case is missing for when iov_iter_extract_pages() only got some pages and return a number larger than 0, but not the requested amount. This fixes a possible NULL pointer dereference following a bad input from ioctl(TEE_IOC_SHM_REGISTER) where parts of the buffer isn't mapped.

Products
Kernel
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
6.12.53, 6.17.3
CVEs
CVE-2025-40031
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
7 Nov 2026, 01:47 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

tee: fix register_shm_helper()

core-osv · Original source

Published 28 Oct 2025, 11:48 UTC

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tee: fix register_shm_helper() In register_shm_helper(), fix incorrect error handling for a call to iov_iter_extract_pages(). A case is missing for when iov_iter_extract_pages() only got some pages and return a number larger than 0, but not the requested amount. This fixes a possible NULL pointer dereference following a bad input from ioctl(TEE_IOC_SHM_REGISTER) where parts of the buffer isn't mapped.

osv:CVE-2025-40031

Kernel

Fixed versions: 6.12.53, 6.17.3

Complete source record
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