linux: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sparc: fix accurate exception reporting in copy_...
CVE-2025-40124 is fixed in linux on 1 platform, first by DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40124, released November 12, 2025. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.
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.
Where it's fixed
| Product | Fixed in | Fix | Released |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | |||
| linux · Debian 12.15 (bookworm) | 6.1.158-1 | DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40124 | Nov 12, 2025 |
| linux · Debian 13.5 (trixie) | 6.12.57-1 | DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40124 | Nov 12, 2025 |
| linux · Debian 14 | 6.17.6-1 | DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40124 | Nov 12, 2025 |
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