CVE-2025-40230 — Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions in Linux
Severity
5.9MEDIUM
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 90.90%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 4
Latest updateFeb 24
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm: prevent poison consumption when splitting THP
When performing memory error injection on a THP (Transparent Huge Page)
mapped to userspace on an x86 server, the kernel panics with the following
trace. The expected behavior is to terminate the affected process instead
of panicking the kernel, as the x86 Machine Check code can recover from an
in-userspace #MC.
mce: [Hardware Error]: CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: f Bank 3: …
Affected Packages5 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxb1f202060afeb7fcb98473929d26fd3d2093b067 — 6fc0a7c99e973a50018c8b4be34914a1b5c7b383+3