CVE-2026-23354

Summary

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

x86/fred: Correct speculative safety in fred_extint()

array_index_nospec() is no use if the result gets spilled to the stack, as it makes the believed safe-under-speculation value subject to memory predictions.

For all practical purposes, this means array_index_nospec() must be used in the expression that accesses the array.

As the code currently stands, it's the wrong side of irqentry_enter(), and 'index' is put into %ebp across the function call.

Remove the index variable and reposition array_index_nospec(), so it's calculated immediately before the array access.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux14619d912b658ecd9573fb88400d3830a29cadcb < 3bc5887b0a2b06d2d9c22f1f4f8500490b3ae643affected
LinuxLinux14619d912b658ecd9573fb88400d3830a29cadcb < e58f1a9b0677de24dcfee0b21393446ec92ff120affected
LinuxLinux14619d912b658ecd9573fb88400d3830a29cadcb < 92caa5274b99cb6729177232a029ce0dfa6c5f7baffected
LinuxLinux14619d912b658ecd9573fb88400d3830a29cadcb < aa280a08e7d8fae58557acc345b36b3dc329d595affected
LinuxLinux6.9affected
LinuxLinux0 < 6.9unaffected
LinuxLinux6.12.77 <= 6.12.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.18.17 <= 6.18.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.19.7 <= 6.19.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.0 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

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