CVE-2026-23354

Published: March 26, 2026Last modified: April 9, 2026

Description

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.

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• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3bc5887b0a2b06d2d9c22f1f4f8500490b3ae643
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92caa5274b99cb6729177232a029ce0dfa6c5f7b
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa280a08e7d8fae58557acc345b36b3dc329d595
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e58f1a9b0677de24dcfee0b21393446ec92ff120