CVE-2025-37880

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 6.14.5 - Denial of Service via sched_yield Time-Travel Mode

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: um: work around sched_yield not yielding in time-travel mode sched_yield by a userspace may not actually cause scheduling in time-travel mode as no time has passed. In the case seen it appears to be a badly implemented userspace spinlock in ASAN. Unfortunately, with time-travel it causes an extreme slowdown or even deadlock depending on the kernel configuration (CONFIG_UML_MAX_USERSPACE_ITERATIONS). Work around it by accounting time to the process whenever it executes a sched_yield syscall.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0015
EPSS Percentile 4.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-667
Status published
Products (8)
linux/Kernel 5.3.0 - 6.14.5linux
Linux/Linux < 5.3
Linux/Linux 065038706f77a56754e8f0c2556dab7e22dfe577 - 887c5c12e80c8424bd471122d2e8b6b462e12874
Linux/Linux 065038706f77a56754e8f0c2556dab7e22dfe577 - 990ddc65173776f1e01e7135d8c1fd5f8fd4d5d2
Linux/Linux 5.3
Linux/Linux 6.14.5 - 6.14.*
Linux/Linux 6.15
linux/linux_kernel < 6.14.5
Published May 09, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026