CVE-2025-38233
CVE-2025-38233CVE-2025-38233
linux / linux_kernel
Description
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:
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: c0000000009c
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.8 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Last modified | 2026-07-30 |