tee: fix register_shm_helper()
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
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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