CVE-2024-43865: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390/fpu: Re-add exception handling in load_fpu_state() With the recent rewrite of the fpu code exception handling for the lfpc instruction within load_fpu_state() was erroneously removed. Add it again to prevent that loading invalid floating point register values cause an unhandled specification exception.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 6.9, before 6.10.4 (fixed in 6.10.4); version 6.11 only

Published 2024-08-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.