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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 14, 2026· Updated Mar 25, 2026

riscv: Sanitize syscall table indexing under speculation

CVE-2025-71203

Description

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

riscv: Sanitize syscall table indexing under speculation

The syscall number is a user-controlled value used to index into the syscall table. Use array_index_nospec() to clamp this value after the bounds check to prevent speculative out-of-bounds access and subsequent data leakage via cache side channels.

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    • (no CPE)
    • (no CPE)range: 6.4

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