CVE-2025-40124
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2025
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
sparc: fix accurate exception reporting in copy_{from_to}_user for UltraSPARC III
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sparc: fix accurate exception reporting in copy_{from_to}_user for UltraSPARC III Anthony Yznaga tracked down that a BUG_ON in ext4 code with large folios enabled resulted from copy_from_user() returning impossibly large values greater than the size to be copied. This lead to __copy_from_iter() returning impossible values instead of the actual number of bytes it was able to copy. The BUG_ON has been reported in https://lore.kernel.org/r/b14f55642207e63e907965e209f6323a0df6dcee.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de The referenced commit introduced exception handlers on user-space memory references in copy_from_user and copy_to_user. These handlers return from the respective function and calculate the remaining bytes left to copy using the current register contents. The exception handlers expect that %o2 has already been masked during the bulk copy loop, but the masking was performed after that loop. This will fix the return value of copy_from_user and copy_to_user in the faulting case. The behaviour of memcpy stays unchanged.
Scoped product and version facts
Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
unaffected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ee841d0aff649164080e445e84885015958d8ff4 | affected | git | fdd43fe6d286f27b826572457a89c926f97e2d3a | Unavailable | None listed |
| ee841d0aff649164080e445e84885015958d8ff4 | affected | git | 1198077606aeffb102587c6ea079ce99641c99d4 | Unavailable | None listed |
| ee841d0aff649164080e445e84885015958d8ff4 | affected | git | 1857cdca12c4aff58bf26a7005a4d02850c29927 | Unavailable | None listed |
| ee841d0aff649164080e445e84885015958d8ff4 | affected | git | 91eda032eb16e5d2be27c95584665bc555bb5a90 | Unavailable | None listed |
| ee841d0aff649164080e445e84885015958d8ff4 | affected | git | dc766c4830a7e1e1ee9d7f77d4ab344f2eb23c8e | Unavailable | None listed |
| ee841d0aff649164080e445e84885015958d8ff4 | affected | git | 5ef9c94d7110e90260c06868cf1dcf899b9f25ee | Unavailable | None listed |
| ee841d0aff649164080e445e84885015958d8ff4 | affected | git | e50377c6b3f278c9f3ef017ffce17f5fcc9dace4 | Unavailable | None listed |
| ee841d0aff649164080e445e84885015958d8ff4 | affected | git | 47b49c06eb62504075f0f2e2227aee2e2c2a58b3 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 1c7e17b1c4d60cc5aa575460f7efb73686dd3b39 | affected | git | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| ac663c54f40b2830b1ca32d1ae9d683fe248b14c | affected | git | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 4.4.34 | affected | semver | 4.5 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 4.8.10 | affected | semver | 4.9 | Unavailable | None listed |
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
affected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.9 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 4.9 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 5.4.301 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.4.* | None listed |
| 5.10.246 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.10.* | None listed |
| 5.15.195 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.15.* | None listed |
| 6.1.156 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.1.* | None listed |
| 6.6.112 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.6.* | None listed |
| 6.12.53 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.12.* | None listed |
| 6.17.3 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.17.* | None listed |
| 6.18 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |