Security Advisory

CVE-2025-37880

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-05-09 06:45:44
Last updated 2026-05-11 21:16:54
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.