PT-2026-8175
CVE-2025-71203
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Published
2025-01-01
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Updated
2026-10-17
Description by
CVSS 3.1
7.0
HighMetricsAV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)
Description
The Linux kernel contains a flaw where the syscall number, a user-controlled value, is used to index into the syscall table. This can lead to speculative out-of-bounds access and potential data leakage through cache side channels. The issue is addressed by using
array index nospec() to clamp the syscall number after a bounds check. The vulnerable component is the syscall table indexing process. The syscall number is a user-controlled value.Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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