{"id":"CVE-2025-37966","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-37966","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T01:14:28.215Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: riscv: Fix kernel crash due to PR_SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL When userspace does PR_SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL, but Supm extension is not available, the kernel crashes: Oops - illegal instruction…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nriscv: Fix kernel crash due to PR_SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL\n\nWhen userspace does PR_SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL, but Supm extension is not\navailable, the kernel crashes:\n\nOops - illegal instruction [#1]\n    [snip]\nepc : set_tagged_addr_ctrl+0x112/0x15a\n ra : set_tagged_addr_ctrl+0x74/0x15a\nepc : ffffffff80011ace ra : ffffffff80011a30 sp : ffffffc60039be10\n    [snip]\nstatus: 0000000200000120 badaddr: 0000000010a79073 cause: 0000000000000002\n    set_tagged_addr_ctrl+0x112/0x15a\n    __riscv_sys_prctl+0x352/0x73c\n    do_trap_ecall_u+0x17c/0x20c\n    andle_exception+0x150/0x15c\n\nFix it by checking if Supm is available.","published":"2025-05-20T17:15:47.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T09:15:48.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":[],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.0016,"percentile":0.05123,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.16%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b595a2f5656cd45d534ed2160c94f7662adefe5","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae08d55807c099357c047dba17624b09414635dd","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-37966","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}