CVE-2025-38586

medium

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.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e23184725dbb72d5d02940222eee36dbba2aa422

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b114fcee766d5101eada1aca7bb5fd0a86c89b35

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ce30231e0a2c8c361ee5f8f7f265fc17130adce

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0dbef493cae7d451f740558665893c000adb2321

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-08-19

Updated: 2025-08-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00018