CVE-2025-37991

parisc: Fix double SIGFPE crash

published May 20, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
12.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00227 · 12.7th percentile
Published
2025-05-20T17:18Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 20 MAY 17:18Z
    parisc: Fix double SIGFPE crash
    cvelistv5