# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-37960"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-05-20T16:01:53.264Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:18:25.936Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
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-2025-37960"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-37960.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-37960"
title: "memblock: Accept allocated memory before use in memblock_double_array()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmemblock: Accept allocated memory before use in memblock_double_array()\n\nWhen increasing the array size in memblock_double_array() and the slab\nis not yet available, a call to memblock_find_in_range() is used to\nreserve/allocate memory. However, the range returned may not have been\naccepted, which can result in a crash when booting an SNP guest:\n\n  RIP: 0010:memcpy_orig+0x68/0x130\n  Code: ...\n  RSP: 0000:ffffffff9cc03ce8 EFLAGS: 00010006\n  RAX: ff11001ff83e5000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: fffffffffffff000\n  RDX: 0000000000000bc0 RSI: ffffffff9dba8860 RDI: ff11001ff83e5c00\n  RBP: 0000000000002000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000002000\n  R10: 000000207fffe000 R11: 0000040000000000 R12: ffffffff9d06ef78\n  R13: ff11001ff83e5000 R14: ffffffff9dba7c60 R15: 0000000000000c00\n  memblock_double_array+0xff/0x310\n  memblock_add_range+0x1fb/0x2f0\n  memblock_reserve+0x4f/0xa0\n  memblock_alloc_range_nid+0xac/0x130\n  memblock_alloc_internal+0x53/0xc0\n  memblock_alloc_try_nid+0x3d/0xa0\n  swiotlb_init_remap+0x149/0x2f0\n  mem_init+0xb/0xb0\n  mm_core_init+0x8f/0x350\n  start_kernel+0x17e/0x5d0\n  x86_64_start_reservations+0x14/0x30\n  x86_64_start_kernel+0x92/0xa0\n  secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0x194/0x19b\n\nMitigate this by calling accept_memory() on the memory range returned\nbefore the slab is available.\n\nPrior to v6.12, the accept_memory() interface used a 'start' and 'end'\nparameter instead of 'start' and 'size', therefore the accept_memory()\ncall must be adjusted to specify 'start + size' for 'end' when applying\nto kernels prior to v6.12."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"dcdfdd40fa82b6704d2841938e5c8ec3051eb0d6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7bcd29181bab8d508d2adfdbb132de8b1e088698"},{"version":"dcdfdd40fa82b6704d2841938e5c8ec3051eb0d6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d66a22f6a432a9dd376c9b365d7dc89bd416909c"},{"version":"dcdfdd40fa82b6704d2841938e5c8ec3051eb0d6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"aa513e69e011a2b19fa22ce62ce35effbd5e0c81"},{"version":"dcdfdd40fa82b6704d2841938e5c8ec3051eb0d6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"da8bf5daa5e55a6af2b285ecda460d6454712ff4"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.5"},{"version":"6.6.92","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.29","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.14.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.14.*"},{"version":"6.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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