System crash via reserved CAAM register access
Published Sep 5, 2025 · Updated Sep 5, 2025
Denial of service in the Linux CAAM driver from 6.10 allows local users to crash affected i.MX8 systems by initiating suspend. During caam_ctrl_suspend, the driver reads reserved CAAM register page 0 because its OP-TEE-only check does not cover pages owned by the SECO or Secure Enclave. Reachability requires an i.MX8QM or i.MX8ULP platform where another management core reserves page 0, and the resulting synchronous external abort crashes the kernel.
Summary
What happened
Denial of service in the Linux CAAM driver from 6.10 allows local users to crash affected i.MX8 systems by initiating suspend. During caam_ctrl_suspend, the driver reads reserved CAAM register page 0 because its OP-TEE-only check does not cover pages owned by the SECO or Secure Enclave. Reachability requires an i.MX8QM or i.MX8ULP platform where another management core reserves page 0, and the resulting synchronous external abort crashes the kernel.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-39722
- Published
- Sep 5, 2025
- Updated
- Sep 5, 2025
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- T1499
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
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- Sep 5, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 5, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=6.10
- Affected versionversion=d2835701d93cae6d597672ef9dc3fa889867031a <488ed465e579a20485f38080e4ef8b90b69ef7c0
- Affected versionversion=d2835701d93cae6d597672ef9dc3fa889867031a <5ffc47feddcf8eb4d8ac7b42111a02c8e8146512
- Affected versionversion=d2835701d93cae6d597672ef9dc3fa889867031a <f9534674ce53f133c91c272f091f0242932574ae
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