CVE-2025-40112

Linux Kernel 4.9.0-6.17.2 - DoS via Exception Handler Miscalculations

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sparc: fix accurate exception reporting in copy_{from_to}_user for Niagara 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. This commit fixes a couple of bad calculations and a broken epilogue in the exception handlers. This will prevent crashes and ensure correct return values of copy_from_user and copy_to_user in the faulting case. The behaviour of memcpy stays unchanged.

Scores

EPSS 0.0021
EPSS Percentile 11.4%

Details

Status published
Products (29)
linux/Kernel 4.9.0 - 5.4.301linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.195linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.156linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.246linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.17.3linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.112linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.53linux
Linux/Linux < 4.9
Linux/Linux 4.4.34 - 4.5
Linux/Linux 4.8.10 - 4.9
... and 19 more
Published Nov 12, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026