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CVE-2025-37966 (GCVE-0-2025-37966)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-20 16:47 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:18
VLAI
Title
riscv: Fix kernel crash due to PR_SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL
Summary
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.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 09d6775f503b393d0457c7126aa43208e1724004 , < 4b595a2f5656cd45d534ed2160c94f7662adefe5 (git)
Affected: 09d6775f503b393d0457c7126aa43208e1724004 , < ae08d55807c099357c047dba17624b09414635dd (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.13
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.13 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.14.7 , ≤ 6.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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