{"cve":"CVE-2025-37898","nvd":{"published":"2025-05-20T16:15:26.177","modified":"2026-06-17T09:15:39.553","status":"Analyzed","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npowerpc64/ftrace: fix module loading without patchable function entries\n\nget_stubs_size assumes that there must always be at least one patchable\nfunction entry, which is not always the case (modules that export data\nbut no code), otherwise it returns -ENOEXEC and thus the section header\nsh_size is set to that value. During module_memory_alloc() the size is\npassed to execmem_alloc() after being page-aligned and thus set to zero\nwhich will cause it to fail the allocation (and thus module loading) as\n__vmalloc_node_range() checks for zero-sized allocs and returns null:\n\n[  115.466896] module_64: cast_common: doesn't contain __patchable_function_entries.\n[  115.469189] ------------[ cut here ]------------\n[  115.469496] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 274 at mm/vmalloc.c:3778 __vmalloc_node_range_noprof+0x8b4/0x8f0\n...\n[  115.478574] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---\n[  115.479545] execmem: unable to allocate memory\n\nFix this by removing the check completely, since it is anyway not\nhelpful to propagate this as an error upwards.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":5.5},"cwes":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/358b559afec7806b9d01c2405b490e782c347022","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/534f5a8ba27863141e29766467a3e1f61bcb47ac"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:01:57.636215869+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2025-37898","score":0.00173,"percentile":0.06717,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}