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The ARM SPE tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussions about the Statistical Profiling Extension for ARM processors, particularly within the Linux kernel. Recent content includes a thread detailing a security fix for CVE-2025-40081, a numeric overflow in the ARM SPE perf driver that could cause kernel instability with large AUX buffers. The fix involved a one-line cast to prevent overflow in offset calculations. This tag is relevant for developers and system administrators working with ARM-based systems, performance profiling, and kernel security patches.
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    Linux ARM SPE Perf CVE-2025-40081: One-line Cast Fix Prevents Overflow

    A small, surgical change to the Linux kernel’s ARM SPE perf driver closed CVE-2025-40081 — a numeric overflow in the PERF_IDX2OFF macro that could miscompute buffer offsets for large AUX buffers (>= 2 GiB) and lead to kernel instability. The fix casts the buffer pages count to an unsigned long...
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