CVE-2025-39804

CVE-2025-39804

High · published September 15, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
15.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

lib/crypto: arm64/poly1305: Fix register corruption in no-SIMD contexts

Restore the SIMD usability check that was removed by commit a59e5468a921

("crypto: arm64/poly1305 - Add block-only interface").

This safety check is cheap and is well worth eliminating a footgun.

While the Poly1305 functions should not be called when SIMD registers

are unusable, if they are anyway, they should just do the right thing

instead of corrupting random tasks' registers and/or computing incorrect

MACs. Fixing this is also needed for poly1305_kunit to pass.

Just use may_use_simd() instead of the original crypto_simd_usable(),

since poly1305_kunit won't rely on crypto_simd_disabled_for_test.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00252 · 15.7th percentile
Published
2025-09-15T17:15Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.16, < 6.16.46.16.4
References (2)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 SEP 12:36Z
    lib/crypto: arm64/poly1305: Fix register corruption in no-SIMD contexts
    cvelistv5