coresight: ete: Always save state on power down
Key facts
- Attack vector
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Attack complexity
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- Impact type
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- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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- Fix status
- Fixed
No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: coresight: ete: Always save state on power down System register ETMs and ETE are unlikely to be preserved on CPU power down. The ETE DT binding also never documented "arm,coresight-loses-context-with-cpu" so nobody would have legitimately been able to use that binding to fix it and ACPI has no such binding at all. Fix it by hard coding the setting for sysreg ETMs (ETE is always sysreg) or ACPI boots. Use a local variable when setting up save_state so that it's immune to concurrent probing when devices have different configurations which is an issue with modifying the global. This fixes the following error when using Coresight with ACPI on the FVP which supports CPU PM: coresight ete0: External agent took claim tag WARNING: drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-core.c:248 at coresight_disclaim_device_unlocked+0xe0/0xe8, CPU#0: perf/117
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 6.1.191, 6.6.160, 6.12.114, 6.18.40, 7.1.5, 7.2
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 5 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-80623
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-6v36-jxjj-2vq8
- 2026-10-21 Fix available: Linux/Linux@31633ba13cc49017015f606d5c66eaf5052e99a8, Linux/[email protected], Linux/[email protected] +1 · CNA
- 2026-10-21 2 new references · CNA
- 2026-10-30 Fix available: Linux/Linux@0f8396271d7026583bcaa71ffe2e7f6025244705, Linux/[email protected] · CNA
- 2026-10-30 1 new reference · CNA
References
Other 6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f8396271d7026583bcaa71ffe2e7f6025244705
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/31633ba13cc49017015f606d5c66eaf5052e99a8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f58d17798882a3aa3323f9d80fe85e25a38f4b93
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65d87f28daec31903fc39fee0744f7a0059c19f2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/293dacd5b6a9f1275d92ca6c4fd874e54b2c8319
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ab4645fe4206c142a5f1491e191c906279686cf
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Sources
- CVE-2026-80623 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-80623 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-6v36-jxjj-2vq8 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-80623 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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