CVE-2025-40124

NameCVE-2025-40124
DescriptionIn 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.
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Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
linux (PTS)bullseye5.10.223-1vulnerable
bullseye (security)5.10.244-1vulnerable
bookworm6.1.148-1vulnerable
bookworm (security)6.1.158-1fixed
trixie6.12.43-1vulnerable
trixie (security)6.12.48-1vulnerable
forky6.16.12-2vulnerable
sid6.17.7-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
linuxsourcebookworm6.1.158-1
linuxsourcetrixie6.12.57-1
linuxsource(unstable)6.17.6-1

Notes

https://git.kernel.org/linus/47b49c06eb62504075f0f2e2227aee2e2c2a58b3 (6.18-rc1)

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