Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 11, 2025· Updated Sep 29, 2025

crypto: acomp - Fix CFI failure due to type punning

CVE-2025-39777

Description

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

To avoid a crash when control flow integrity is enabled, make the workspace ("stream") free function use a consistent type, and call it through a function pointer that has that same type.

Affected products

Linux/Linux Kernel Rtllm-fuzzy
Linux/Linuxv5
Range: 6.16

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ec68c59461ca846aab9b7c2b39f63ac7c8a43cfmitre
git.kernel.org/stable/c/962ddc5a7a4b04c007bba0f3e7298cda13c62efdmitre

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