Linux Kernel up to 6.6.121/6.12.66/6.18.6/6.19-rc5 dmaengine max_register memory corruption

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.6.121/6.12.66/6.18.6/6.19-rc5. It has been classified as critical. Affected is an unknown function of the component dmaengine. The manipulation of the argument max_register leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2025-71195. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.6.121/6.12.66/6.18.6/6.19-rc5. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown code block of the component dmaengine. The manipulation of the argument max_register with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: xilinx: xdma: Fix regmap max_register The max_register field is assigned the size of the register memory region instead of the offset of the last register. The result is that reading from the regmap via debugfs can cause a segmentation fault: tail /sys/kernel/debug/regmap/xdma.1.auto/registers Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffff800082f70000 Mem abort info: ESR = 0x0000000096000007 EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits SET = 0, FnV = 0 EA = 0, S1PTW = 0 FSC = 0x07: level 3 translation fault [...] Call trace: regmap_mmio_read32le+0x10/0x30 _regmap_bus_reg_read+0x74/0xc0 _regmap_read+0x68/0x198 regmap_read+0x54/0x88 regmap_read_debugfs+0x140/0x380 regmap_map_read_file+0x30/0x48 full_proxy_read+0x68/0xc8 vfs_read+0xcc/0x310 ksys_read+0x7c/0x120 __arm64_sys_read+0x24/0x40 invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x64/0x108 do_el0_svc+0xb0/0xd8 el0_svc+0x38/0x130 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x120/0x138 el0t_64_sync+0x194/0x198 Code: aa1e03e9 d503201f f9400000 8b214000 (b9400000) ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- note: tail[1217] exited with irqs disabled note: tail[1217] exited with preempt_count 1 Segmentation fault

The advisory is shared at git.kernel.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-71195 since 01/31/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 04/30/2026).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 297896 (Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-71195), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 6.6.122, 6.12.67, 6.18.7 or 6.19-rc6 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch df8a131a41ff6202d47f59452735787f2b71dd2d/606ea969e78295407f4bf06aa0e272fe59897184/5e7ad329d259cf5bed7530d6d2525bcf7cb487a1/c7d436a6c1a274c1ac28d5fb3b8eb8f03b6d0e10 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at git.kernel.org. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (297896) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2026-0324). Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

Affected

• Debian Linux
• Google Cloud Platform
• Amazon Linux 2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Ubuntu Linux
• SUSE Linux
• Oracle Linux
• IBM QRadar SIEM
• SUSE openSUSE
• RESF Rocky Linux
• Open Source Linux Kernel

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Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 6.6.121
• 6.12.0
• 6.12.1
• 6.12.2
• 6.12.3
• 6.12.4
• 6.12.5
• 6.12.6
• 6.12.7
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• 6.12.25
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• 6.12.60
• 6.12.61
• 6.12.62
• 6.12.63
• 6.12.64
• 6.12.65
• 6.12.66
• 6.18.0
• 6.18.1
• 6.18.2
• 6.18.3
• 6.18.4
• 6.18.5
• 6.18.6
• 6.19-rc1
• 6.19-rc2
• 6.19-rc3
• 6.19-rc4
• 6.19-rc5

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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