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From: Siddh Raman Pant <siddh.raman.pant@oracle.com>
To: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: CVE-2025-21991: x86/microcode/AMD: Fix out-of-bounds on systems with CPU-less NUMA nodes
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2025 09:24:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <793ae4a30ab15d0993ce9152ce91b6b98a05b1a5.camel@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2025040257-CVE-2025-21991-6aae@gregkh>

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On Wed, 2 Apr 2025 13:51:58 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
> 
> x86/microcode/AMD: Fix out-of-bounds on systems with CPU-less NUMA nodes
> 
> [...]
> 
> This does not have any security implications since flashing microcode is
> a privileged operation but I believe this has reliability implications by
> potentially corrupting memory while flashing a microcode update.

If it is explicitly specified that this does not have any security
implication, why is this a CVE?

IMO this should be rejected.

Thanks,
Siddh

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       reply	other threads:[~2025-06-04  9:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <2025040257-CVE-2025-21991-6aae@gregkh>
2025-06-04  9:24 ` Siddh Raman Pant [this message]
2025-06-04  9:28   ` gregkh
2025-06-04  9:54     ` Siddh Raman Pant
2025-06-04 10:00       ` gregkh
2025-06-04 10:36         ` Siddh Raman Pant

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