{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-68171 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-68171 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 16 Dec 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-68171 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-68171 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 16 Dec 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-68171 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-68171/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-68171/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-68171","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-68171/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-68171","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2025-68171","DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68171","GHSA-4ggp-pgr3-73m2","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2025-68171","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-13-CVE-2025-68171","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2025-68171","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-68171","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68171"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A kernel bug causes a warning and potential instability during signal delivery when AMX tasks preempt non-AMX tasks, requiring a patch to synchronize XFD state.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nx86/fpu: Ensure XFD state on signal delivery\n\nSean reported [1] the following splat when running KVM tests:\n\n   WARNING: CPU: 232 PID: 15391 at xfd_validate_state+0x65/0x70\n   Call Trace:\n    \u003cTASK\u003e\n    fpu__clear_user_states+0x9c/0x100\n    arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x142/0x210\n    exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x55/0x100\n    do_syscall_64+0x205/0x2c0\n    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53\n\nChao further identified [2] a reproducible scenario involving signal\ndelivery: a non-AMX task is preempted by an AMX-enabled task which\nmodifies the XFD MSR.\n\nWhen the non-AMX task resumes and reloads XSTATE with init values,\na warning is triggered due to a mismatch between fpstate::xfd and the\nCPU's current XFD state. fpu__clear_user_states() does not currently\nre-synchronize the XFD state after such preemption.\n\nInvoke xfd_update_state() which detects and corrects the mismatch if\nthere is a dynamic feature.\n\nThis also benefits the sigreturn path, as fpu__restore_sig() may call\nfpu__clear_user_states() when the sigframe is inaccessible.\n\n[ dhansen: minor changelog munging ]","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"x86/fpu: Ensure XFD state on signal delivery","id":"CVE-2025-68171","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":5,"next":{"headline":"crypto: aspeed - fix double free caused by devm","id":"CVE-2025-68172"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"drm/radeon: Do not kfree() devres managed rdev","id":"CVE-2025-68170"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-12-16","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-15","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A kernel bug causes a warning and potential instability during signal delivery when AMX tasks preempt non-AMX tasks, requiring a patch to synchronize XFD state.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-68171/"}