CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-38283

HighCVSS 8.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.17%

6th percentile - higher than 6% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel's hisi_acc_vfio_pci driver, a bug in live migration for VMs without a loaded VF driver leads to NULL pointer access when migrating device data.

Risk Assessment

Attempting live migration of a VM without a VF driver may cause access errors and crash the guest or host system.

Recommendation

Apply the kernel patch that skips device data migration when the VF driver is not loaded.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hisi_acc_vfio_pci: bugfix live migration function without VF device driver If the VF device driver is not loaded in the Guest OS and we attempt to perform device data migration, the address of the migrated data will be NULL. The live migration recovery operation on the destination side will access a null address value, which will cause access errors. Therefore, live migration of VMs without added VF device drivers does not require device data migration. In addition, when the queue address data obtained by the destination is empty, device queue recovery processing will not be performed.

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