CVE-2025-39815 (GCVE-0-2025-39815)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-16 13:00
Modified
2026-08-05 12:05
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RISC-V: KVM: fix stack overrun when loading vlenb The userspace load can put up to 2048 bits into an xlen bit stack buffer. We want only xlen bits, so check the size beforehand.
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Linux Linux Version: 2fa290372dfe7dd248b1c16f943f273a3e674f22
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