{"id":"CVE-2025-38322","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-38322","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T10:47:21.552Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf/x86/intel: Fix crash in icl_update_topdown_event() The perf_fuzzer found a hard-lockup crash on a RaptorLake machine: Oops: general protection fault, maybe for address…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nperf/x86/intel: Fix crash in icl_update_topdown_event()\n\nThe perf_fuzzer found a hard-lockup crash on a RaptorLake machine:\n\n  Oops: general protection fault, maybe for address 0xffff89aeceab400: 0000\n  CPU: 23 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/23\n  Tainted: [W]=WARN\n  Hardware name: Dell Inc. Precision 9660/0VJ762\n  RIP: 0010:native_read_pmc+0x7/0x40\n  Code: cc e8 8d a9 01 00 48 89 03 5b cd cc cc cc cc 0f 1f ...\n  RSP: 000:fffb03100273de8 EFLAGS: 00010046\n  ....\n  Call Trace:\n    <TASK>\n    icl_update_topdown_event+0x165/0x190\n    ? ktime_get+0x38/0xd0\n    intel_pmu_read_event+0xf9/0x210\n    __perf_event_read+0xf9/0x210\n\nCPUs 16-23 are E-core CPUs that don't support the perf metrics feature.\nThe icl_update_topdown_event() should not be invoked on these CPUs.\n\nIt's a regression of commit:\n\n  f9bdf1f95339 (\"perf/x86/intel: Avoid disable PMU if !cpuc->enabled in sample read\")\n\nThe bug introduced by that commit is that the is_topdown_event() function\nis mistakenly used to replace the is_topdown_count() call to check if the\ntopdown functions for the perf metrics feature should be invoked.\n\nFix it.","published":"2025-07-10T09:15:26.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-15T02:17:54.000Z","status":"Modified","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","debian/debian linux"],"epss":{"score":0.00197,"percentile":0.09358,"date":"2026-10-27","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 (0.20%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/702ea6028032d6c1fe96c2d4762a3575e3654819","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79e2dd573116d3338507c311460da9669095c94d","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a85cc69acdcb05f8cd226b8ea0778b8e2e887e6f","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0823d5fbacb1c551d793cbfe7af24e0d1fa45ed","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e97c45c770f5e56c784a46c2a96ab968d26b97d9","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-019113.html","source":"0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e"},{"url":"https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-032379.html","source":"0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e"},{"url":"https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-457936.html","source":"0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38322","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."}