CVE-2025-40124

Linux Kernel Integer Overflow in copy_from_user/copy_to_user

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 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.

Scores

EPSS 0.0021
EPSS Percentile 10.8%

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 1c7e17b1c4d60cc5aa575460f7efb73686dd3b39
Linux/Linux 4.4.34 - 4.5
... and 19 more
Published Nov 12, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026