sparc: fix accurate exception reporting in copy_{from_to}_user for Niagara
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
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.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 4.5, 4.9
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 5.4.301, 5.10.246, 5.15.195, 6.1.156, 6.6.112, 6.12.53, 6.17.3, 6.18
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-40112
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-92f2-89hh-wf7v
References
Other 8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/05440320ea3e249d5f984918f2bf51210c1a7c03
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7823fc4d8ab5e57f8db7806ff2530c03c166c4bb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37547d8e6eba87507279ee3dfddfd9dc46335454
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a365ee556e45f780ee322b349a06efdad0c1458f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8cdeb5e482d3fdce7e825444b6ca3865e24c0228
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a90ce516a73dbe087f9bf3dbf311301a58d125c6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/088c5098ec6d6b0396edfbf3dad3e81de8469c1c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0b67c8fc10b13a9090340c5f8a37d308f4e1571c
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Sources
- CVE-2025-40112 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-40112 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-92f2-89hh-wf7v · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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