CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-39763

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.16%

5th percentile - higher than 5% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, ACPI/APEI did not send SIGBUS to the current task when a synchronous memory error was not recovered. For errors such as invalid PA, unexpected severity, or no memory failure config support, the user process could trigger SEA again, potentially exceeding firmware thresholds or causing a kernel hard lockup. The fix force-kills the process if no memory_failure() work is queued.

Risk Assessment

Can lead to error loops, exceeding firmware thresholds, kernel lockup, and system reboot. Affects system stability and availability.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the ACPI/APEI fix. Regularly monitor logs for synchronous memory errors.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ACPI: APEI: send SIGBUS to current task if synchronous memory error not recovered If a synchronous error is detected as a result of user-space process triggering a 2-bit uncorrected error, the CPU will take a synchronous error exception such as Synchronous External Abort (SEA) on Arm64. The kernel will queue a memory_failure() work which poisons the related page, unmaps the page, and then sends a SIGBUS to the process, so that a system wide panic can be avoided. However, no memory_failure() work will be queued when abnormal synchronous errors occur. These errors can include situations like invalid PA, unexpected severity, no memory failure config support, invalid GUID section, etc. In such a case, the user-space process will trigger SEA again. This loop can potentially exceed the platform firmware threshold or even trigger a kernel hard lockup, leading to a system reboot. Fix it by performing a force kill if no memory_failure() work is queued for synchronous errors. [ rjw: Changelog edits ]

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