CVE-2026-81016

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When the SMU leaves them at\nzero this maps physical address 0 and trips the ioremap-on-RAM warning:\n\n amd_pmc AMDI000B:00: SMU cmd failed. err: 0xff\n ioremap on RAM at 0x0000000000000000 - 0x0000000000ffffff\n WARNING: CPU: 13 PID: 4592 at arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c:...\n\nCheck the return value of each SMU command and propagate it, and reject a\nzero physical address before calling devm_ioremap()."}], "metrics": [{"cvssV3_1": {"version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H", "baseScore": 7.7, "baseSeverity": "HIGH"}, "scenarios": [{"lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - amd_stb_s2d_init() runs from amd_pmc_probe() on the AMD PMC ACPI platform driver (AMDI0005\u2013AMDI000C and related IDs) during local device bind or module load; the SMU mailbox commands and devm_ioremap() are not reachable from network, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or USB packet paths.\nAC:L - On affected AMD platforms where SMU accepts S2D_TELEMETRY_SIZE but rejects S2D_PHYS_ADDR_LOW/HIGH (observed err 0xff), ignored failures leave phys_addr_low/hi uninitialized or zero and the subsequent ioremap is deterministic; stack zeroing makes address 0 reliable, with no race or attacker-uncontrollable layout.\nPR:N - The SMU queries and devm_ioremap() execute automatically in amd_pmc_probe() during ACPI/udev bind with no capable() check; enable_stb=1 is the vulnerable STB debug deployment (kernel cmdline or modprobe), after which kernel context runs the path without a user account or namespace privilege.\nUI:N - No victim interaction is required; the invalid ioremap occurs during automatic amd_pmc probe at boot or module load when STB is enabled, before any debugfs open, mount, or other user action.\nS:U - The bad physical-address ioremap, kernel warning, and any subsequent STB debugfs copy occur entirely inside the host kernel PMC driver; this is not a VM escape, IOMMU/DMA boundary bypass, or other cross-authority breakout.\nC:H - Ignored SMU failures pass uninitialized phys_addr_low/hi to devm_ioremap() for up to 16MB (S2D_TELEMETRY_DRAMBYTES_MAX); a non-RAM physical address creates a mapping that amd_stb_debugfs_open_v2 copies to userspace via memcpy_fromio on the 0644 stb_read node, yielding a large physical-memory disclosure.\nI:N - The driver only memcpy_fromio()s the STB mapping and never writes through stb_virt_addr; 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