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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-71078" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-01-13T15:34:43.437Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T18:15:11.106Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:44.935Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-71078" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-71078.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-71078" title: "powerpc/64s/slb: Fix SLB multihit issue during SLB preload" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npowerpc/64s/slb: Fix SLB multihit issue during SLB preload\n\nOn systems using the hash MMU, there is a software SLB preload cache that\nmirrors the entries loaded into the hardware SLB buffer. This preload\ncache is subject to periodic eviction — typically after every 256 context\nswitches — to remove old entry.\n\nTo optimize performance, the kernel skips switch_mmu_context() in\nswitch_mm_irqs_off() when the prev and next mm_struct are the same.\nHowever, on hash MMU systems, this can lead to inconsistencies between\nthe hardware SLB and the software preload cache.\n\nIf an SLB entry for a process is evicted from the software cache on one\nCPU, and the same process later runs on another CPU without executing\nswitch_mmu_context(), the hardware SLB may retain stale entries. If the\nkernel then attempts to reload that entry, it can trigger an SLB\nmulti-hit error.\n\nThe following timeline shows how stale SLB entries are created and can\ncause a multi-hit error when a process moves between CPUs without a\nMMU context switch.\n\nCPU 0 CPU 1\n----- -----\nProcess P\nexec swapper/1\n load_elf_binary\n begin_new_exc\n activate_mm\n switch_mm_irqs_off\n switch_mmu_context\n switch_slb\n /*\n * This invalidates all\n * the entries in the HW\n * and setup the new HW\n * SLB entries as per the\n * preload cache.\n */\ncontext_switch\nsched_migrate_task migrates process P to cpu-1\n\nProcess swapper/0 context switch (to process P)\n(uses mm_struct of Process P) switch_mm_irqs_off()\n switch_slb\n load_slb++\n /*\n * load_slb becomes 0 here\n * and we evict an entry from\n * the preload cache with\n * preload_age(). We still\n * keep HW SLB and preload\n * cache in sync, that is\n * because all HW SLB entries\n * anyways gets evicted in\n * switch_slb during SLBIA.\n * We then only add those\n * entries back in HW SLB,\n * which are currently\n * present in preload_cache\n * (after eviction).\n */\n load_elf_binary continues...\n setup_new_exec()\n slb_setup_new_exec()\n\n sched_switch event\n sched_migrate_task migrates\n process P to cpu-0\n\ncontext_switch from swapper/0 to Process P\n switch_mm_irqs_off()\n /*\n * Since both prev and next mm struct are same we don't call\n * switch_mmu_context(). This will cause the HW SLB and SW preload\n * cache to go out of sync in preload_new_slb_context. Because there\n * was an SLB entry which was evicted from both HW and preload cache\n * on cpu-1. Now later in preload_new_slb_context(), when we will try\n * to add the same preload entry again, we will add this to the SW\n * preload cache and then will add it to the HW SLB. Since on cpu-0\n * this entry was never invalidated, hence adding this entry to the HW\n * SLB will cause a SLB multi-hit error.\n */\nload_elf_binary cont\n---truncated---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"5434ae74629af58ad0fc27143a9ea435f7734410","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"01324c0328181b94cf390bda22ff91c75126ea57"},{"version":"5434ae74629af58ad0fc27143a9ea435f7734410","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2e9a95d60f1df7b57618fd5ef057aef331575bd2"},{"version":"5434ae74629af58ad0fc27143a9ea435f7734410","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c9f865022a1823d814032a09906e91e4701a35fc"},{"version":"5434ae74629af58ad0fc27143a9ea435f7734410","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b13a3dbfa196af68eae2031f209743735ad416bf"},{"version":"5434ae74629af58ad0fc27143a9ea435f7734410","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"895123c309a34d2cfccf7812b41e17261a3a6f37"},{"version":"5434ae74629af58ad0fc27143a9ea435f7734410","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4ae1e46d8a290319f33f71a2710a1382ba5431e8"},{"version":"5434ae74629af58ad0fc27143a9ea435f7734410","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"00312419f0863964625d6dcda8183f96849412c6"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.20","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.20"},{"version":"5.10.248","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.198","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.120","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.64","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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