CVE-2025-37880

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

um: work around sched_yield not yielding in time-travel mode

sched_yield by a userspace may not actually cause scheduling in time-travel mode as no time has passed. In the case seen it appears to be a badly implemented userspace spinlock in ASAN. Unfortunately, with time-travel it causes an extreme slowdown or even deadlock depending on the kernel configuration (CONFIG_UML_MAX_USERSPACE_ITERATIONS).

Work around it by accounting time to the process whenever it executes a sched_yield syscall.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux065038706f77a56754e8f0c2556dab7e22dfe577 < 990ddc65173776f1e01e7135d8c1fd5f8fd4d5d2affected
LinuxLinux065038706f77a56754e8f0c2556dab7e22dfe577 < 887c5c12e80c8424bd471122d2e8b6b462e12874affected
LinuxLinux5.3affected
LinuxLinux0 < 5.3unaffected
LinuxLinux6.14.5 <= 6.14.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.15 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

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