Description

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

mm/compaction: fix UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds warning

syzkaller reported a UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds warning of (1UL << order)
in isolate_freepages_block(). The bogus compound_order can be any value
because it is union with flags. Add back the MAX_PAGE_ORDER check to fix
the warning.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-21815

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux, Linux

Product: Linux, Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.03% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 4.0% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-03-28 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21815
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4491159774d973a9e2e998d25d8fbb20fada6dfa
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/10b7d3eb535098ccd4c82a182a33655d8a0e5c88
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d1366e74342e75555af2648a2964deb2d5c92200

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