CVE-2026-72237

Not scored yetLast modified Aug 19, 2026

Description

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

perf/x86/amd/brs: Fix kernel address leakage

A user-only branch stack can contain branches that originate from the kernel. As a result, kernel addresses are exposed to user space even when PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_USER is requested. On AMD processors supporting X86_FEATURE_BRS (Zen 3 only), perf can still report entries such as SYSRET/interrupt returns for which the branch-from addresses are in the kernel.

E.g.

$ perf record -j any,u -c 4000 -e branch-brs -o - -- \ perf bench syscall basic --loop 1000 | \ perf script -i - -F brstack|tr ' ' '\n'| \ grep -E '0x[89a-f][0-9a-f]{15}'

... 0xffffffff810001c4/0x72e2e32955eb/-/-/-/0//- 0xffffffff810001c4/0x72e2d94a9821/-/-/-/0//- 0xffffffff810001c4/0x72e2d94ffa1b/-/-/-/0//- ...

BRS provides no hardware branch filtering, so privilege level filtering is performed entirely in software. However, amd_brs_match_plm() only validates the branch-to address against the requested privilege levels. For branches from the kernel to user space, the branch-from address is left unchecked and is leaked. Extend the software filter to also validate the branch-from address, so that any branch record whose branch-from address is in the kernel is dropped when PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_USER is requested.

Metrics

No CVSS score has been published yet.

Affected software

Source: the vendor's advisory (CNA). NVD analysis pending.

VendorProductVersions
LinuxLinux>= 8910075d61a37e5b0d82e6c83ed9a0a31fe9ea08, < 4f949bc3913a6e3ce3b8574ac6ed1da8ec7a5ad1; >= 8910075d61a37e5b0d82e6c83ed9a0a31fe9ea08, < ac44b4a3d6137489f8fa2e794b12e849c6b22eaa; >= 8910075d61a37e5b0d82e6c83ed9a0a31fe9ea08, < 90843d00dbc61220b66408ea0d8775cae9e51f70; >= 8910075d61a37e5b0d82e6c83ed9a0a31fe9ea08, < 046f6244da9b68e463a849b21446b9424e531491; >= 8910075d61a37e5b0d82e6c83ed9a0a31fe9ea08, < 2e706be56f418718bb3ae66c0aa94f9b61150e6d; >= 8910075d61a37e5b0d82e6c83ed9a0a31fe9ea08, < 47915e855fb38b42133e31ba917d99565f862154
LinuxLinux5.19

References

Timeline

Published
Aug 15, 2026
Last modified
Aug 19, 2026
NVD status
Received

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