What is CVE-2024-43865?

CVE-2024-43865 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2024-08-21.

How severe is CVE-2024-43865?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Linux

CVE-2024-43865

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390/fpu: Re-add exception handling in load_fpu_state() With the recent rewrite of the fpu code exception handling for the lfpc instruction within load_fpu_state() was erroneously removed. Add it again to prevent that loading invalid floating point register values cause an unhandled specification exception.

EPSS: 0.002 (8.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Linux — versions 8c09871a950a3fe686e0e27fd4193179c5f74f37, 6.9, 0
Linux Linux_kernel — versions 6.11

References

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-43865?: CVE-2024-43865 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2024-08-21.
How severe is CVE-2024-43865?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.