CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-37991
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-05-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-415
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
parisc: Fix double SIGFPE crash
Camm noticed that on parisc a SIGFPE exception will crash an application with
a second SIGFPE in the signal handler. Dave analyzed it, and it happens
because glibc uses a double-word floating-point store to atomically update
function descriptors. As a result of lazy binding, we hit a floating-point
store in fpe_func almost immediately.
When the T bit is set, an assist exception trap occurs when when the
co-processor encounters *any* floating-point instruction except for a double
store of register %fr0. The latter cancels all pending traps. Let's fix this
by clearing the Trap (T) bit in the FP status register before returning to the
signal handler in userspace.
The issue can be reproduced with this test program:
root@parisc:~# cat fpe.c
static void fpe_func(int sig, siginfo_t *i, void *v) {
sigset_t set;
sigemptyset(&set);
sigaddset(&set, SIGFPE);
sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, &set, NULL);
printf("GOT signal %d with si_code %ld\n", sig, i->si_code);
}
int main() {
struct sigaction action = {
.sa_sigaction = fpe_func,
.sa_flags = SA_RESTART|SA_SIGINFO };
sigaction(SIGFPE, &action, 0);
feenableexcept(FE_OVERFLOW);
return printf("%lf\n",1.7976931348623158E308*1.7976931348623158E308);
}
root@parisc:~# gcc fpe.c -lm
root@parisc:~# ./a.out
Floating point exception
root@parisc:~# strace -f ./a.out
execve("./a.out", ["./a.out"], 0xf9ac7034 /* 20 vars */) = 0
getrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK, {rlim_cur=8192*1024, rlim_max=RLIM_INFINITY}) = 0
...
rt_sigaction(SIGFPE, {sa_handler=0x1110a, sa_mask=[], sa_flags=SA_RESTART|SA_SIGINFO}, NULL, 8) = 0
--- SIGFPE {si_signo=SIGFPE, si_code=FPE_FLTOVF, si_addr=0x1078f} ---
--- SIGFPE {si_signo=SIGFPE, si_code=FPE_FLTOVF, si_addr=0xf8f21237} ---
+++ killed by SIGFPE +++
Floating point exception
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 5.4.294)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.238)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.182)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.138)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.90)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.28)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.14.6)
• linux linux kernel 6.15
• debian debian linux 11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-415 Double Free weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a1aff3616b3b57aa4a5f8a7762cce1e82493fe6 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a098c51d18ec99485668da44294565c43dbc106 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c639af49e9e5615a8395981eaf5943fb40acd6f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/757ba4d17b868482837c566cfefca59e2296c608 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf21e890f56b7d0038ddaf25224e4f4c69ecd143 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de3629baf5a33af1919dec7136d643b0662e85ef Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df3592e493d7f29bae4ffde9a9325de50ddf962e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec4584495868bd465fe60a3f771915c0e7ce7951 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/08/msg00010.html Third Party Advisory