vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2025-37948

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 20, 2025
Added
Oct 8, 2025
Modified
Oct 23, 2025

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.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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