vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2025-37929: linux -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 20, 2025
Added
May 28, 2025
Modified
May 29, 2025

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-linux
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