CVE-2025-39976

CVE-2025-39976

High · published October 15, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

futex: Use correct exit on failure from futex_hash_allocate_default()

copy_process() uses the wrong error exit path from futex_hash_allocate_default().

After exiting from futex_hash_allocate_default(), neither tasklist_lock

nor siglock has been acquired. The exit label bad_fork_core_free unlocks

both of these locks which is wrong.

The next exit label, bad_fork_cancel_cgroup, is the correct exit.

sched_cgroup_fork() did not allocate any resources that need to freed.

Use bad_fork_cancel_cgroup on error exit from futex_hash_allocate_default().

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00144 · 3.4th percentile
Published
2025-10-15T12:15Z
References (2)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 OCT 07:55Z
    futex: Use correct exit on failure from futex_hash_allocate_default()
    cvelistv5