CVE-2025-39823

Updated on 16 Sep 2025

Severity

7.8 High severity

Details

CVSS score
7.8
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

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

KVM: x86: use array_index_nospec with indices that come from guest

min and dest_id are guest-controlled indices. Using array_index_nospec() after the bounds checks clamps these values to mitigate speculative execution side-channels.

Details

Affected packages:
linux @ 5.4.0 (+3 more)

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

KVM: x86: use array_index_nospec with indices that come from guest

min and dest_id are guest-controlled indices. Using array_index_nospec() after the bounds checks clamps these values to mitigate speculative execution side-channels.

Fixes