CVE-2025-37929

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - NULL Pointer Dereference in Spectre-BHB MIDR Arrays

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: arm64: errata: Add missing sentinels to Spectre-BHB MIDR arrays Commit a5951389e58d ("arm64: errata: Add newer ARM cores to the spectre_bhb_loop_affected() lists") added some additional CPUs to the Spectre-BHB workaround, including some new arrays for designs that require new 'k' values for the workaround to be effective. Unfortunately, the new arrays omitted the sentinel entry and so is_midr_in_range_list() will walk off the end when it doesn't find a match. With UBSAN enabled, this leads to a crash during boot when is_midr_in_range_list() is inlined (which was more common prior to c8c2647e69be ("arm64: Make  _midr_in_range_list() an exported function")): | Internal error: aarch64 BRK: 00000000f2000001 [#1] PREEMPT SMP | pstate: 804000c5 (Nzcv daIF +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) | pc : spectre_bhb_loop_affected+0x28/0x30 | lr : is_spectre_bhb_affected+0x170/0x190 | [...] | Call trace: | spectre_bhb_loop_affected+0x28/0x30 | update_cpu_capabilities+0xc0/0x184 | init_cpu_features+0x188/0x1a4 | cpuinfo_store_boot_cpu+0x4c/0x60 | smp_prepare_boot_cpu+0x38/0x54 | start_kernel+0x8c/0x478 | __primary_switched+0xc8/0xd4 | Code: 6b09011f 54000061 52801080 d65f03c0 (d4200020) | ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- | Kernel panic - not syncing: aarch64 BRK: Fatal exception Add the missing sentinel entries.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0013
EPSS Percentile 31.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (23)
debian/debian_linux 11.0
linux/Kernel 5.15.181 - 5.15.182linux
linux/Kernel 6.1.135 - 6.1.138linux
linux/Kernel 6.12.24 - 6.12.28linux
linux/Kernel 6.14.3 - 6.14.6linux
linux/Kernel 6.6.88 - 6.6.90linux
Linux/Linux 4117975672c4743cffaf32b6fd018cfacd1b420e - 3821cae9bd5a99a42d3d0be1b58e41f072cd4c4c
Linux/Linux 46e22de65eb45a67a68ddfe9301f79b0c3821ca8 - 6266b3509b2c6ebf2f9daf2239ff8eb60c5f5bd3
Linux/Linux 4a2f3d8260a996bc43dcc1ce49ac594db54f4b3e - e68da90ac00d8b681561aeb8f5d6c47af3a04861
Linux/Linux 5.15.181 - 5.15.182
... and 13 more
Published May 20, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026