CVE-2025-68195 (GCVE-0-2025-68195)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-16 13:43 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:10
VLAI
Title
x86/CPU/AMD: Add missing terminator for zen5_rdseed_microcode
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/CPU/AMD: Add missing terminator for zen5_rdseed_microcode Running x86_match_min_microcode_rev() on a Zen5 CPU trips up KASAN for an out of bounds access.
Assigner
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 36ff93e66d0efc46e39fab536a9feec968daa766 , < 4c6b56a76478bd1ab609827c571905386c11d308 (git)
Affected: 607b9fb2ce248cc5b633c5949e0153838992c152 , < f1fdffe0afea02ba783acfe815b6a60e7180df40 (git)
Affected: e980de2ff109dacb6d9d3a77f01b27c467115ecb (git)
Affected: 6.12.58 , < 6.13 (semver)
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