CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-38067
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-06-18
- 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:
rseq: Fix segfault on registration when rseq_cs is non-zero
The rseq_cs field is documented as being set to 0 by user-space prior to
registration, however this is not currently enforced by the kernel. This
can result in a segfault on return to user-space if the value stored in
the rseq_cs field doesn't point to a valid struct rseq_cs.
The correct solution to this would be to fail the rseq registration when
the rseq_cs field is non-zero. However, some older versions of glibc
will reuse the rseq area of previous threads without clearing the
rseq_cs field and will also terminate the process if the rseq
registration fails in a secondary thread. This wasn't caught in testing
because in this case the leftover rseq_cs does point to a valid struct
rseq_cs.
What we can do is clear the rseq_cs field on registration when it's
non-zero which will prevent segfaults on registration and won't break
the glibc versions that reuse rseq areas on thread creation.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.18 < 5.10.240)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.189)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.146)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.99)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.39)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.14.9)
• debian debian linux 11.0
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2df285dab00fa03a3ef939b6cb0d0d0aeb0791db Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e4028ef31b69286c9d4878cee0330235f53f218 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/48900d839a3454050fd5822e34be8d54c4ec9b86 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b2b05d0dc2f4f0646922068af435aed5763d16ba Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eaf112069a904b6207b4106ff083e0208232a2eb Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f004f58d18a2d3dc761cf973ad27b4a5997bd876 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd881d0a085fc54354414aed990ccf05f282ba53 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html Third Party Advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-082556.html cert-portal.siemens.com