CVE-2025-21863 (GCVE-0-2025-21863)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-12 09:42
Modified
2025-10-01 19:26
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring: prevent opcode speculation sqe->opcode is used for different tables, make sure we santitise it against speculations.
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Linux Linux Version: d3656344fea0339fb0365c8df4d2beba4e0089cd
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