CVE-2025-37948
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2025-05-20 | |
| Impact: | Moderate | What is this? |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: arm64: bpf: Add BHB mitigation to the epilogue for cBPF programs A malicious BPF program may manipulate the branch history to influence what the hardware speculates will happen next. On exit from a BPF program, emit the BHB mititgation sequence. This is only applied for 'classic' cBPF programs that are loaded by seccomp.
See more information about CVE-2025-37948 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD
NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v3 metrics
| Base Score: | 2.5 |
| Vector String: | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
| Version: | 3.1 |
| Attack Vector: | Local |
| Attack Complexity: | High |
| Privileges Required: | Low |
| User Interaction: | None |
| Scope: | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality Impact: | Low |
| Integrity Impact: | None |
| Availability Impact: | None |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 10 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2025-20480 | 2025-07-17 |
| Oracle Linux version 10 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2025-20530 | 2025-08-18 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2025-20552 | 2025-09-08 |
| Oracle Linux version 9 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2025-20480 | 2025-07-17 |
| Oracle Linux version 9 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2025-20530 | 2025-08-18 |
| Oracle Linux version 9 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2025-20552 | 2025-09-08 |
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