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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-37991" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-05-20T17:18:45.988Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:19:11.846Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z" 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-2025-37991" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-37991.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-37991" title: "parisc: Fix double SIGFPE crash" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nparisc: Fix double SIGFPE crash\n\nCamm noticed that on parisc a SIGFPE exception will crash an application with\na second SIGFPE in the signal handler. Dave analyzed it, and it happens\nbecause glibc uses a double-word floating-point store to atomically update\nfunction descriptors. As a result of lazy binding, we hit a floating-point\nstore in fpe_func almost immediately.\n\nWhen the T bit is set, an assist exception trap occurs when when the\nco-processor encounters *any* floating-point instruction except for a double\nstore of register %fr0. The latter cancels all pending traps. Let's fix this\nby clearing the Trap (T) bit in the FP status register before returning to the\nsignal handler in userspace.\n\nThe issue can be reproduced with this test program:\n\nroot@parisc:~# cat fpe.c\n\nstatic void fpe_func(int sig, siginfo_t *i, void *v) {\n sigset_t set;\n sigemptyset(&set);\n sigaddset(&set, SIGFPE);\n sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, &set, NULL);\n printf(\"GOT signal %d with si_code %ld\\n\", sig, i-\u003esi_code);\n}\n\nint main() {\n struct sigaction action = {\n .sa_sigaction = fpe_func,\n .sa_flags = SA_RESTART|SA_SIGINFO };\n sigaction(SIGFPE, &action, 0);\n feenableexcept(FE_OVERFLOW);\n return printf(\"%lf\\n\",1.7976931348623158E308*1.7976931348623158E308);\n}\n\nroot@parisc:~# gcc fpe.c -lm\nroot@parisc:~# ./a.out\n Floating point exception\n\nroot@parisc:~# strace -f ./a.out\n execve(\"./a.out\", [\"./a.out\"], 0xf9ac7034 /* 20 vars */) = 0\n getrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK, {rlim_cur=8192*1024, rlim_max=RLIM_INFINITY}) = 0\n ...\n rt_sigaction(SIGFPE, {sa_handler=0x1110a, sa_mask=[], sa_flags=SA_RESTART|SA_SIGINFO}, NULL, 8) = 0\n --- SIGFPE {si_signo=SIGFPE, si_code=FPE_FLTOVF, si_addr=0x1078f} ---\n --- SIGFPE {si_signo=SIGFPE, si_code=FPE_FLTOVF, si_addr=0xf8f21237} ---\n +++ killed by SIGFPE +++\n Floating point exception" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2a1aff3616b3b57aa4a5f8a7762cce1e82493fe6"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"757ba4d17b868482837c566cfefca59e2296c608"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ec4584495868bd465fe60a3f771915c0e7ce7951"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6c639af49e9e5615a8395981eaf5943fb40acd6f"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6a098c51d18ec99485668da44294565c43dbc106"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cf21e890f56b7d0038ddaf25224e4f4c69ecd143"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"df3592e493d7f29bae4ffde9a9325de50ddf962e"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"de3629baf5a33af1919dec7136d643b0662e85ef"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"version":"5.4.294","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.238","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.182","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.138","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.90","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.28","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.14.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.14.*"},{"version":"6.15","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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