CVE-2025-39777 (GCVE-0-2025-39777)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-11 16:56
Modified
2025-09-11 16:56
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: acomp - Fix CFI failure due to type punning To avoid a crash when control flow integrity is enabled, make the workspace ("stream") free function use a consistent type, and call it through a function pointer that has that same type.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ec68c59461ca846aab9b7c2b39f63ac7c8a43cf
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/962ddc5a7a4b04c007bba0f3e7298cda13c62efd
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Linux Linux Version: 42d9f6c774790d290c175e8775ce9f1366438098
Version: 42d9f6c774790d290c175e8775ce9f1366438098
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