CVE-2025-38233

Estado: ModificadaAlta (7.8)—

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

powerpc64/ftrace: fix clobbered r15 during livepatching

While r15 is clobbered always with PPC_FTRACE_OUT_OF_LINE, it is not restored in livepatch sequence leading to not so obvious fails like below:

Fix it by restoring r15 always.

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  BUG: Unable to handle kernel data access on write at 0xc0000000000f9078
  Faulting instruction address: 0xc0000000018ff958
  Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
  ...
  NIP:  c0000000018ff958 LR: c0000000018ff930 CTR: c0000000009c0790
  REGS: c00000005f2e7790 TRAP: 0300   Tainted: G              K      (6.14.0+)
  MSR:  8000000000009033 <SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE>  CR: 2822880b  XER: 20040000
  CFAR: c0000000008addc0 DAR: c0000000000f9078 DSISR: 0a000000 IRQMASK: 1
  GPR00: c0000000018f2584 c00000005f2e7a30 c00000000280a900 c000000017ffa488
  GPR04: 0000000000000008 0000000000000000 c0000000018f24fc 000000000000000d
  GPR08: fffffffffffe0000 000000000000000d 0000000000000000 0000000000008000
  GPR12: c0000000009c0790 c000000017ffa480 c00000005f2e7c78 c0000000000f9070
  GPR16: c00000005f2e7c90 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
  GPR20: 0000000000000000 c00000005f3efa80 c00000005f2e7c60 c00000005f2e7c88
  GPR24: c00000005f2e7c60 0000000000000001 c0000000000f9078 0000000000000000
  GPR28: 00007fff97960000 c000000017ffa480 0000000000000000 c0000000000f9078
  ...
  Call Trace:
    check_heap_object+0x34/0x390 (unreliable)
  __mutex_unlock_slowpath.isra.0+0xe4/0x230
  seq_read_iter+0x430/0xa90
  proc_reg_read_iter+0xa4/0x200
  vfs_read+0x41c/0x510
  ksys_read+0xa4/0x190
  system_call_exception+0x1d0/0x440
  system_call_vectored_common+0x15c/0x2ec

CVSS

Versión: 3.1
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Puntuación base: 7.8

Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)

Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.16%
Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 4
Fecha de la puntuación: 6/10/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).

🎯 Técnicas ATT&CK

Cómo se explota esta vulnerabilidad y qué consigue el atacante, en el lenguaje de MITRE ATT&CK.

ExplotaciónT1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalationprivilege escalation85 %
Impacto principalT1499.004 Application or System Exploitationimpact75 %

Acceso local (AV:L) sin interacción escala privilegios mediante fallo en livepatching del kernel. El clobbering de r15 causa corrupción de memoria (DAR invalid) y panic del kernel, resultando en DoS.

Inferido por nuestro agente de análisis a partir de la descripción oficial, el vector CVSS y la CWE, y comprobado por un supervisor. Puede contener errores.

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Tecnologías afectadas (1)

Linux — Linux Kernel

CWE

NVD-CWE-noinfo

Referencias

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