https://vulnerability.circl.lu Contains only the most 10 recent entries. http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification python-feedgen en Wed, 30 Sep 2026 10:46:58 +0000 https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/cve-2025-68250 <p><strong>Affected:</strong> Linux</p> <p>In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:</p> <p>hung_task: fix warnings caused by unaligned lock pointers</p> <p>The blocker tracking mechanism assumes that lock pointers are at least 4-byte aligned to use their lower bits for type encoding.</p> <p>However, as reported by Eero Tamminen, some architectures like m68k only guarantee 2-byte alignment of 32-bit values. This breaks the assumption and causes two related WARN_ON_ONCE checks to trigger.</p> <p>To fix this, the runtime checks are adjusted to silently ignore any lock that is not 4-byte aligned, effectively disabling the feature in such cases and avoiding the related warnings.</p> <p>Thanks to Geert Uytterhoeven for bisecting!</p> <p><strong>Affected:</strong> Linux</p> <p>In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:</p> <p>hung_task: fix warnings caused by unaligned lock pointers</p> <p>The blocker tracking mechanism assumes that lock pointers are at least 4-byte aligned to use their lower bits for type encoding.</p> <p>However, as reported by Eero Tamminen, some architectures like m68k only guarantee 2-byte alignment of 32-bit values. This breaks the assumption and causes two related WARN_ON_ONCE checks to trigger.</p> <p>To fix this, the runtime checks are adjusted to silently ignore any lock that is not 4-byte aligned, effectively disabling the feature in such cases and avoiding the related warnings.</p> <p>Thanks to Geert Uytterhoeven for bisecting!</p> https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/cve-2025-68250