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CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HSummary
CVE-2025-22091 is a medium-severity Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CWE-190) vulnerability in Linux Linux Kernel. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SA-11 (Developer Testing and Evaluation) and SA-8 (Security and Privacy Engineering Principles) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-11195
Vulnerability Data
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/mlx5: Fix page_size variable overflow Change all variables storing mlx5_umem_mkc_find_best_pgsz() result to unsigned long to support values larger than 31 and avoid overflow. For example: If we try to register…
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4GB of memory that is contiguous in physical memory, the driver will optimize the page_size and try to use an mkey with 4GB entity size. The 'unsigned int' page_size variable will overflow to '0' and we'll hit the WARN_ON() in alloc_cacheable_mr(). WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1203 at drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c:1124 alloc_cacheable_mr+0x22/0x580 [mlx5_ib] Modules linked in: mlx5_ib mlx5_core bonding ip6_gre ip6_tunnel tunnel6 ip_gre gre rdma_rxe rdma_ucm ib_uverbs ib_ipoib ib_umad rpcrdma ib_iser libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi rdma_cm iw_cm ib_cm fuse ib_core [last unloaded: mlx5_core] CPU: 2 UID: 70878 PID: 1203 Comm: rdma_resource_l Tainted: G W 6.14.0-rc4-dirty #43 Tainted: [W]=WARN Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:alloc_cacheable_mr+0x22/0x580 [mlx5_ib] Code: 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 41 57 41 56 41 55 41 54 41 52 53 48 83 ec 30 f6 46 28 04 4c 8b 77 08 75 21 <0f> 0b 49 c7 c2 ea ff ff ff 48 8d 65 d0 4c 89 d0 5b 41 5a 41 5c 41 RSP: 0018:ffffc900006ffac8 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000004c0d0d0 RBX: ffff888217a22000 RCX: 0000000000100001 RDX: 00007fb7ac480000 RSI: ffff8882037b1240 RDI: ffff8882046f0600 RBP: ffffc900006ffb28 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 00000000000007e0 R11: ffffea0008011d40 R12: ffff8882037b1240 R13: ffff8882046f0600 R14: ffff888217a22000 R15: ffffc900006ffe00 FS: 00007fb7ed013340(0000) GS:ffff88885fd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007fb7ed1d8000 CR3: 00000001fd8f6006 CR4: 0000000000772eb0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 PKRU: 55555554 Call Trace: <TASK> ? __warn+0x81/0x130 ? alloc_cacheable_mr+0x22/0x580 [mlx5_ib] ? report_bug+0xfc/0x1e0 ? handle_bug+0x55/0x90 ? exc_invalid_op+0x17/0x70 ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20 ? alloc_cacheable_mr+0x22/0x580 [mlx5_ib] create_real_mr+0x54/0x150 [mlx5_ib] ib_uverbs_reg_mr+0x17f/0x2a0 [ib_uverbs] ib_uverbs_handler_UVERBS_METHOD_INVOKE_WRITE+0xca/0x140 [ib_uverbs] ib_uverbs_run_method+0x6d0/0x780 [ib_uverbs] ? __pfx_ib_uverbs_handler_UVERBS_METHOD_INVOKE_WRITE+0x10/0x10 [ib_uverbs] ib_uverbs_cmd_verbs+0x19b/0x360 [ib_uverbs] ? walk_system_ram_range+0x79/0xd0 ? ___pte_offset_map+0x1b/0x110 ? __pte_offset_map_lock+0x80/0x100 ib_uverbs_ioctl+0xac/0x110 [ib_uverbs] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x94/0xb0 do_syscall_64+0x50/0x110 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e RIP: 0033:0x7fb7ecf0737b Code: ff ff ff 85 c0 79 9b 49 c7 c4 ff ff ff ff 5b 5d 4c 89 e0 41 5c c3 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa b8 10 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 7d 2a 0f 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 RSP: 002b:00007ffdbe03ecc8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffdbe03edb8 RCX: 00007fb7ecf0737b RDX: 00007ffdbe03eda0 RSI: 00000000c0181b01 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 00007ffdbe03ed80 R08: 00007fb7ecc84010 R09: 00007ffdbe03eed4 R10: 0000000000000009 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffdbe03eed4 R13: 000000000000000c R14: 000000000000000c R15: 00007fb7ecc84150 </TASK>
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Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Developer testing and evaluation (static analysis, fuzzing, unit tests) directly finds integer overflow defects before deployment.
Secure engineering principles require use of safe arithmetic constructs or language features that structurally eliminate integer overflow during calculation.
Input validation enforces bounds on values before arithmetic, stopping the conditions that trigger overflow or wraparound.
Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Secure SDLC practices directly require use of safe arithmetic, bounds checks, and testing that prevent integer overflows.
Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Security testing in development can detect integer overflows before release.
Secure SDLC mandates input validation and arithmetic checks that prevent integer overflows.
Application security requirements include bounds checking and safe arithmetic to avoid overflow conditions.
Secure architecture principles require defensive coding patterns that mitigate integer wraparound risks.
Secure coding standards explicitly forbid unsafe integer operations and mandate overflow-safe constructs.