CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-38586
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-08-19
- Last modified
- 2026-10-15
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf, arm64: Fix fp initialization for exception boundary
In the ARM64 BPF JIT when prog->aux->exception_boundary is set for a BPF
program, find_used_callee_regs() is not called because for a program
acting as exception boundary, all callee saved registers are saved.
find_used_callee_regs() sets `ctx->fp_used = true;` when it sees FP
being used in any of the instructions.
For programs acting as exception boundary, ctx->fp_used remains false
even if frame pointer is used by the program and therefore, FP is not
set-up for such programs in the prologue. This can cause the kernel to
crash due to a pagefault.
Fix it by setting ctx->fp_used = true for exception boundary programs as
fp is always saved in such programs.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.12 < 6.12.42)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.15.10)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.16 < 6.16.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0dbef493cae7d451f740558665893c000adb2321 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ce30231e0a2c8c361ee5f8f7f265fc17130adce Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b114fcee766d5101eada1aca7bb5fd0a86c89b35 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e23184725dbb72d5d02940222eee36dbba2aa422 Patch