CVE-2025-38067

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
18/06/2025
Last modified:
17/12/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> rseq: Fix segfault on registration when rseq_cs is non-zero<br /> <br /> The rseq_cs field is documented as being set to 0 by user-space prior to<br /> registration, however this is not currently enforced by the kernel. This<br /> can result in a segfault on return to user-space if the value stored in<br /> the rseq_cs field doesn&amp;#39;t point to a valid struct rseq_cs.<br /> <br /> The correct solution to this would be to fail the rseq registration when<br /> the rseq_cs field is non-zero. However, some older versions of glibc<br /> will reuse the rseq area of previous threads without clearing the<br /> rseq_cs field and will also terminate the process if the rseq<br /> registration fails in a secondary thread. This wasn&amp;#39;t caught in testing<br /> because in this case the leftover rseq_cs does point to a valid struct<br /> rseq_cs.<br /> <br /> What we can do is clear the rseq_cs field on registration when it&amp;#39;s<br /> non-zero which will prevent segfaults on registration and won&amp;#39;t break<br /> the glibc versions that reuse rseq areas on thread creation.

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 4.18 (including) 5.10.240 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 5.11 (including) 5.15.189 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 5.16 (including) 6.1.146 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 6.2 (including) 6.6.99 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 6.7 (including) 6.12.39 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 6.13 (including) 6.14.9 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*