CVE-2026-80560

Technical Description

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

openrisc: signal: do not restore privileged SR bits on sigreturn

restore_sigcontext() copies the whole supervision register (SR) from the

signal frame and only clears SPR_SR_SM before the value is reloaded into

the hardware SR (through ESR and l.rfe) on the return to user space. All

other SR bits are left under user control.

An unprivileged task can thus return from a signal handler through a

crafted sigframe that clears SPR_SR_DME. With the data MMU disabled the

CPU performs no translation or protection on data accesses, so the task

gains read and write access to arbitrary physical memory, a local

privilege escalation. SPR_SR_IME, SPR_SR_SUMRA, SPR_SR_LEE, SPR_SR_EPH

and the cache-enable bits are exposed the same way. The ptrace GPR regset

already refuses any change to SR for exactly this reason.

Restore only the arithmetic flag bits (F, CY, OV) from the signal frame

and take every privileged control bit from

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories, patches, and mitigation guidance. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

References