CVE-2025-38489 (GCVE-0-2025-38489)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-28 11:21 – Updated: 2026-05-23 15:59
VLAI
Title
s390/bpf: Fix bpf_arch_text_poke() with new_addr == NULL again
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390/bpf: Fix bpf_arch_text_poke() with new_addr == NULL again Commit 7ded842b356d ("s390/bpf: Fix bpf_plt pointer arithmetic") has accidentally removed the critical piece of commit c730fce7c70c ("s390/bpf: Fix bpf_arch_text_poke() with new_addr == NULL"), causing intermittent kernel panics in e.g. perf's on_switch() prog to reappear. Restore the fix and add a comment.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: c3062bdb859b6e2567e7f5c8cde20c0250bb130f , < 0c7b20f7785cfdd59403333612c90b458b12307c (git)
Affected: 7ded842b356d151ece8ac4985940438e6d3998bb , < d5629d1af0600f8cc7c9245e8d832a66358ef889 (git)
Affected: 7ded842b356d151ece8ac4985940438e6d3998bb , < a4f9c7846b1ac428921ce9676b1b8c80ed60093c (git)
Affected: 7ded842b356d151ece8ac4985940438e6d3998bb , < 6a5abf8cf182f577c7ae6c62f14debc9754ec986 (git)
Affected: d3d74e45a060d218fe4b0c9174f0a77517509d8e (git)
Affected: 6.6.26 , < 6.6.100 (semver)
Affected: 6.8.5 , < 6.9 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.9
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.9 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.100 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.40 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.8 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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