CVE-2025-37966

Our Analysis: General-Purpose

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Published Date May 20, 2025

Last Modified May 21, 2025

CVSS Vector Not Available

Description

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.