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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-21991" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-04-02T12:53:14.230Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:57:34.986Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:29.455Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21991" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21991.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21991" title: "x86/microcode/AMD: Fix out-of-bounds on systems with CPU-less NUMA nodes" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nx86/microcode/AMD: Fix out-of-bounds on systems with CPU-less NUMA nodes\n\nCurrently, load_microcode_amd() iterates over all NUMA nodes, retrieves their\nCPU masks and unconditionally accesses per-CPU data for the first CPU of each\nmask.\n\nAccording to Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numaperf.rst:\n\n \"Some memory may share the same node as a CPU, and others are provided as\n memory only nodes.\"\n\nTherefore, some node CPU masks may be empty and wouldn't have a \"first CPU\".\n\nOn a machine with far memory (and therefore CPU-less NUMA nodes):\n- cpumask_of_node(nid) is 0\n- cpumask_first(0) is CONFIG_NR_CPUS\n- cpu_data(CONFIG_NR_CPUS) accesses the cpu_info per-CPU array at an\n index that is 1 out of bounds\n\nThis does not have any security implications since flashing microcode is\na privileged operation but I believe this has reliability implications by\npotentially corrupting memory while flashing a microcode update.\n\nWhen booting with CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS=y on an AMD machine that flashes\na microcode update. I get the following splat:\n\n UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c:X:Y\n index 512 is out of range for type 'unsigned long[512]'\n [...]\n Call Trace:\n dump_stack\n __ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds\n load_microcode_amd\n request_microcode_amd\n reload_store\n kernfs_fop_write_iter\n vfs_write\n ksys_write\n do_syscall_64\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe\n\nChange the loop to go over only NUMA nodes which have CPUs before determining\nwhether the first CPU on the respective node needs microcode update.\n\n [ bp: Massage commit message, fix typo. ]" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"979e197968a1e8f09bf0d706801dba4432f85ab3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d509c4731090ebd9bbdb72c70a2d70003ae81f4f"},{"version":"44a44b57e88f311c1415be1f567c50050913c149","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"985a536e04bbfffb1770df43c6470f635a6b1073"},{"version":"be2710deaed3ab1402379a2ede30a3754fe6767a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"18b5d857c6496b78ead2fd10001b81ae32d30cac"},{"version":"d576547f489c935b9897d4acf8beee3325dea8a5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ec52240622c4d218d0240079b7c1d3ec2328a9f4"},{"version":"7ff6edf4fef38ab404ee7861f257e28eaaeed35f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e686349cc19e800dac8971929089ba5ff59abfb0"},{"version":"7ff6edf4fef38ab404ee7861f257e28eaaeed35f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"488ffc0cac38f203979f83634236ee53251ce593"},{"version":"7ff6edf4fef38ab404ee7861f257e28eaaeed35f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5ac295dfccb5b015493f86694fa13a0dde4d3665"},{"version":"7ff6edf4fef38ab404ee7861f257e28eaaeed35f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e3e89178a9f4a80092578af3ff3c8478f9187d59"},{"version":"d6353e2fc12c5b8f00f86efa30ed73d2da2f77be","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"1b1e0eb1d2971a686b9f7bdc146115bcefcbb960","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"eaf5dea1eb8c2928554b3ca717575cbe232b843c","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.4.235","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.4.292"},{"version":"5.10.173","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10.236"},{"version":"5.15.99","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.180"},{"version":"6.1.16","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.132"},{"version":"4.14.308","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"},{"version":"4.19.276","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.20"},{"version":"6.2.3","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.3"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.3"},{"version":"5.4.292","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.236","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.180","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.132","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.84","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.20","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.13.*"},{"version":"6.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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