CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-37966
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-05-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
riscv: Fix kernel crash due to PR_SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL
When userspace does PR_SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL, but Supm extension is not
available, the kernel crashes:
Oops - illegal instruction [#1]
[snip]
epc : set_tagged_addr_ctrl+0x112/0x15a
ra : set_tagged_addr_ctrl+0x74/0x15a
epc : ffffffff80011ace ra : ffffffff80011a30 sp : ffffffc60039be10
[snip]
status: 0000000200000120 badaddr: 0000000010a79073 cause: 0000000000000002
set_tagged_addr_ctrl+0x112/0x15a
__riscv_sys_prctl+0x352/0x73c
do_trap_ecall_u+0x17c/0x20c
andle_exception+0x150/0x15c
Fix it by checking if Supm is available.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.14.7)
• linux linux kernel 6.15