linux-gcp-fips vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-21709)
It was discovered that some AMD processors did not properly clear data in the floating point divider unit during speculative execution. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. (CVE-2025-54505) It was discovered that some AMD Zen 2 processors did not properly isolate shared resources in the operation cache. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to corrupt instructions executed at a higher privilege level, resulting in privilege escalation. (CVE-2025-54518) It was discovered that some AMD Zen 5 processors supporting RDSEED instruction did not properly handle entropy, potentially resulting in the consumption of insufficiently random values. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to influence the values returned by the RDSEED instruction causing loss of confidentiality and integrity. (CVE-2025-62626) Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - ARM64 architecture; - RISC-V architecture; - S390 architecture; - x86 architecture; - Block layer subsystem; - Cryptographic API; - Compute Acceleration Framework; - ACPI drivers; - Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers; - Drivers core; - Power management core; - DRBD Distributed Replicated Block Device drivers; - Rados block device (RBD) driver; - Compressed RAM block device driver; - Bluetooth drivers; - Bus devices; - Character device driver; - Clock framework and drivers; - Data acquisition framework and drivers; - Counter interface drivers; - CPU frequency scaling framework; - Hardware crypto device drivers; - CXL (Compute Express Link) drivers; - DMA engine subsystem; - EDAC drivers; - EFI core; - GPU drivers; - Greybus drivers; - HID subsystem; - Hardware monitoring drivers; - I2C subsystem; - IIO ADC drivers; - IIO subsystem; - InfiniBand drivers; - Input Device (Miscellaneous) drivers; - IRQ chip drivers; - LED subsystem; - Mailbox framework; - Multiple devices driver; - Media drivers; - MediaTek SMI driver; - NVIDIA Tegra memory controller driver; - Fastrpc Driver; - IBM Advanced System Management driver; - MMC subsystem; - MTD block device drivers; - Network drivers; - Ethernet bonding driver; - Mellanox network drivers; - Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) driver; - STMicroelectronics network drivers; - Ethernet team driver; - MediaTek network drivers; - Near Field Communication (NFC) drivers; - NTB driver; - NVDIMM (Non-Volatile Memory Device) drivers; - NVME drivers; - Device tree and open firmware driver; - PCI subsystem; - Pin controllers subsystem; - x86 platform drivers; - Broadcom BCM2835 power domain driver; - Generic PM domains; - i.MX PM domains; - Remote Processor subsystem; - S/390 drivers; - SCSI subsystem; - SLIMbus drivers; - Freescale SoC drivers; - Microchip PolarFire SoC system controller driver; - SPI subsystem; - Media staging drivers; - Realtek RTL8723BS SDIO drivers; - SM750 framebuffer staging driver; - TCM subsystem; - Thermal drivers; - TTY drivers; - UFS subsystem; - Cadence USB3 driver; - USB Device Class drivers; - ULPI bus; - USB core drivers; - DesignWare USB2 driver; - USB Gadget drivers; - USB Host Controller drivers; - Mustek MDC800 USB digital camera driver; - USB YUREX driver; - Renesas USBHS Controller drivers; - USB Type-C Connector System Software Interface driver; - VFIO drivers; - Framebuffer layer; - TSM TDX Guest driver; - Xen hypervisor drivers; - File systems infrastructure; - BTRFS file system; - Ceph distributed file system; - EROFS file system; - Ext4 file system; - F2FS file system; - FUSE (File system in Userspace); - GFS2 file system; - HFS+ file system; - Journaling layer for block devices (JBD2); - Network file systems library; - Network file system (NFS) server daemon; - NILFS2 file system; - File system notification infrastructure; - NTFS3 file system; - OCFS2 file system; - Diskquota system; - SMB network file system; - SquashFS file system; - Tracing file system; - UDF file system; - XFS file system; - Kernel CPU control infrastructure; - QorIQ DPAA2 FSL-MC bus driver; - Memory Management; - Integrity Measurement Architecture(IMA) framework; - KVM subsystem; - Memory management; - Networking core; - padata parallel execution mechanism; - PPP protocol drivers and compressors; - Linux Security Modules (LSM) Framework; - Tracing infrastructure; - Network traffic control; - Distributed Switch Architecture; - IPv4 networking; - IP tunnels definitions; - MAC80211 subsystem; - Netfilter; - User-space API (UAPI); - io_uring subsystem; - Audit subsystem; - BPF subsystem; - Control group (cgroup); - Perf events; - Kernel exit() syscall; - Kernel fork() syscal
linux-gcp-fips vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-21709)
Description
It was discovered that some AMD processors did not properly clear data in the floating point divider unit during speculative execution. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. (CVE-2025-54505) It was discovered that some AMD Zen 2 processors did not properly isolate shared resources in the operation cache. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to corrupt instructions executed at a higher privilege level, resulting in privilege escalation. (CVE-2025-54518) It was discovered that some AMD Zen 5 processors supporting RDSEED instruction did not properly handle entropy, potentially resulting in the consumption of insufficiently random values. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to influence the values returned by the RDSEED instruction causing loss of confidentiality and integrity. (CVE-2025-62626) Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - ARM64 architecture; - RISC-V architecture; - S390 architecture; - x86 architecture; - Block layer subsystem; - Cryptographic API; - Compute Acceleration Framework; - ACPI drivers; - Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers; - Drivers core; - Power management core; - DRBD Distributed Replicated Block Device drivers; - Rados block device (RBD) driver; - Compressed RAM block device driver; - Bluetooth drivers; - Bus devices; - Character device driver; - Clock framework and drivers; - Data acquisition framework and drivers; - Counter interface drivers; - CPU frequency scaling framework; - Hardware crypto device drivers; - CXL (Compute Express Link) drivers; - DMA engine subsystem; - EDAC drivers; - EFI core; - GPU drivers; - Greybus drivers; - HID subsystem; - Hardware monitoring drivers; - I2C subsystem; - IIO ADC drivers; - IIO subsystem; - InfiniBand drivers; - Input Device (Miscellaneous) drivers; - IRQ chip drivers; - LED subsystem; - Mailbox framework; - Multiple devices driver; - Media drivers; - MediaTek SMI driver; - NVIDIA Tegra memory controller driver; - Fastrpc Driver; - IBM Advanced System Management driver; - MMC subsystem; - MTD block device drivers; - Network drivers; - Ethernet bonding driver; - Mellanox network drivers; - Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) driver; - STMicroelectronics network drivers; - Ethernet team driver; - MediaTek network drivers; - Near Field Communication (NFC) drivers; - NTB driver; - NVDIMM (Non-Volatile Memory Device) drivers; - NVME drivers; - Device tree and open firmware driver; - PCI subsystem; - Pin controllers subsystem; - x86 platform drivers; - Broadcom BCM2835 power domain driver; - Generic PM domains; - i.MX PM domains; - Remote Processor subsystem; - S/390 drivers; - SCSI subsystem; - SLIMbus drivers; - Freescale SoC drivers; - Microchip PolarFire SoC system controller driver; - SPI subsystem; - Media staging drivers; - Realtek RTL8723BS SDIO drivers; - SM750 framebuffer staging driver; - TCM subsystem; - Thermal drivers; - TTY drivers; - UFS subsystem; - Cadence USB3 driver; - USB Device Class drivers; - ULPI bus; - USB core drivers; - DesignWare USB2 driver; - USB Gadget drivers; - USB Host Controller drivers; - Mustek MDC800 USB digital camera driver; - USB YUREX driver; - Renesas USBHS Controller drivers; - USB Type-C Connector System Software Interface driver; - VFIO drivers; - Framebuffer layer; - TSM TDX Guest driver; - Xen hypervisor drivers; - File systems infrastructure; - BTRFS file system; - Ceph distributed file system; - EROFS file system; - Ext4 file system; - F2FS file system; - FUSE (File system in Userspace); - GFS2 file system; - HFS+ file system; - Journaling layer for block devices (JBD2); - Network file systems library; - Network file system (NFS) server daemon; - NILFS2 file system; - File system notification infrastructure; - NTFS3 file system; - OCFS2 file system; - Diskquota system; - SMB network file system; - SquashFS file system; - Tracing file system; - UDF file system; - XFS file system; - Kernel CPU control infrastructure; - QorIQ DPAA2 FSL-MC bus driver; - Memory Management; - Integrity Measurement Architecture(IMA) framework; - KVM subsystem; - Memory management; - Networking core; - padata parallel execution mechanism; - PPP protocol drivers and compressors; - Linux Security Modules (LSM) Framework; - Tracing infrastructure; - Network traffic control; - Distributed Switch Architecture; - IPv4 networking; - IP tunnels definitions; - MAC80211 subsystem; - Netfilter; - User-space API (UAPI); - io_uring subsystem; - Audit subsystem; - BPF subsystem; - Control group (cgroup); - Perf events; - Kernel exit() syscall; - Kernel fork() syscal
Affected software
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Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Osv Id
- UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21709
- Osv Schema Version
- 1.7.0
- Ecosystems
- ["Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","Ubuntu:18.04:LTS","Ubuntu:20.04:LTS","Ubuntu:22.04:LTS","Ubuntu:Pro:Realtime:22.04:LTS","Ubuntu:24.04:LTS","Ubuntu:Nvidia-BlueField:24.04:LTS","Ubuntu:Pro:FIPS-updates:24.04:LTS","Ubuntu:Pro:Realtime:24.04:LTS"]
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
Threat ID: 6a5fd13e1010f89cc21c64f2
Added to database: 07/21/2026, 20:06:22 UTC
Last enriched: 08/08/2026, 17:07:57 UTC
Last updated: 09/21/2026, 10:01:27 UTC
Views: 24
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