CVE-2025-37981 (GCVE-0-2025-37981)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-20 16:58 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:18
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Title
scsi: smartpqi: Use is_kdump_kernel() to check for kdump
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: smartpqi: Use is_kdump_kernel() to check for kdump The smartpqi driver checks the reset_devices variable to determine whether special adjustments need to be made for kdump. This has the effect that after a regular kexec reboot, some driver parameters such as max_transfer_size are much lower than usual. More importantly, kexec reboot tests have revealed memory corruption caused by the driver log being written to system memory after a kexec. Fix this by testing is_kdump_kernel() rather than reset_devices where appropriate.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 058311b72f54890de824b063feb603942269b732 , < 7cc670e8ebaa5241dd99c0ad75eceb8f8f64f607 (git)
Affected: 058311b72f54890de824b063feb603942269b732 , < ebf673c76ce91e612a882dfaa9a3824962994aae (git)
Affected: 058311b72f54890de824b063feb603942269b732 , < a2d5a0072235a69749ceb04c1a26dc75df66a31a (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.25 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.14.4 , ≤ 6.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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