Vulnerability in Linux

CVE-2025-40112

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.

EPSS: 0.002 (11.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

  • Linux — versions 7ae3aaf53f1695877ccd5ebbc49ea65991e41f1e, 6.17.3, 6.1.156

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-40112?
CVE-2025-40112 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2025-11-12.
How severe is CVE-2025-40112?
High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.