Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 9, 2025· Updated Jan 2, 2026
um: work around sched_yield not yielding in time-travel mode
CVE-2025-37880
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.
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Affected products
7- osv-coords5 versionspkg:apk/chainguard/linux-aws-6.12pkg:apk/chainguard/linux-azure-6.12pkg:apk/chainguard/linux-gcp-6.12pkg:apk/chainguard/linux-qemu-6.12pkg:apk/chainguard/linux-vmware-6.12
< 6.12.80-r0+ 4 more
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