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Azure Linux 3.0 Security Update: kernel (CVE-2025-39989)

🗓️ 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
nessus
 nessus
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Azure Linux 3.0 kernel patch fixes memory poisoning handling and user-space recovery (CVE-2025-39989).

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affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2025-39989 advisory.

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/mce: use is_copy_from_user() to
    determine copy-from-user context Patch series mm/hwpoison: Fix regressions in memory failure handling,
    v4. ## 1. What am I trying to do: This patchset resolves two critical regressions related to memory
    failure handling that have appeared in the upstream kernel since version 5.17, as compared to 5.10 LTS. -
    copyin case: poison found in user page while kernel copying from user space - instr case: poison found
    while instruction fetching in user space ## 2. What is the expected outcome and why - For copyin case:
    Kernel can recover from poison found where kernel is doing get_user() or copy_from_user() if those places
    get an error return and the kernel return -EFAULT to the process instead of crashing. More specifily, MCE
    handler checks the fixup handler type to decide whether an in kernel #MC can be recovered. When
    EX_TYPE_UACCESS is found, the PC jumps to recovery code specified in _ASM_EXTABLE_FAULT() and return a
    -EFAULT to user space. - For instr case: If a poison found while instruction fetching in user space, full
    recovery is possible. User process takes #PF, Linux allocates a new page and fills by reading from
    storage. ## 3. What actually happens and why - For copyin case: kernel panic since v5.17 Commit
    4c132d1d844a (x86/futex: Remove .fixup usage) introduced a new extable fixup type, EX_TYPE_EFAULT_REG,
    and later patches updated the extable fixup type for copy-from-user operations, changing it from
    EX_TYPE_UACCESS to EX_TYPE_EFAULT_REG. It breaks previous EX_TYPE_UACCESS handling when posion found in
    get_user() or copy_from_user(). - For instr case: user process is killed by a SIGBUS signal due to #CMCI
    and #MCE race When an uncorrected memory error is consumed there is a race between the CMCI from the
    memory controller reporting an uncorrected error with a UCNA signature, and the core reporting and SRAR
    signature machine check when the data is about to be consumed. ### Background: why *UN*corrected errors
    tied to *C*MCI in Intel platform [1] Prior to Icelake memory controllers reported patrol scrub events that
    detected a previously unseen uncorrected error in memory by signaling a broadcast machine check with an
    SRAO (Software Recoverable Action Optional) signature in the machine check bank. This was overkill because
    it's not an urgent problem that no core is on the verge of consuming that bad data. It's also found that
    multi SRAO UCE May cause nested MCE interrupts and finally become an IERR. Hence, Intel downgrades the
    machine check bank signature of patrol scrub from SRAO to UCNA (Uncorrected, No Action required), and
    signal changed to #CMCI. Just to add to the confusion, Linux does take an action (in uc_decode_notifier())
    to try to offline the page despite the UC*NA* signature name. ### Background: why #CMCI and #MCE race when
    poison is consuming in Intel platform [1] Having decided that CMCI/UCNA is the best action for patrol
    scrub errors, the memory controller uses it for reads too. But the memory controller is executing
    asynchronously from the core, and can't tell the difference between a real read and a speculative read.
    So it will do CMCI/UCNA if an error is found in any read. Thus: 1) Core is clever and thinks address A is
    needed soon, issues a speculative read. 2) Core finds it is going to use address A soon after sending the
    read request 3) The CMCI from the memory controller is in a race with MCE from the core that will soon try
    to retire the load from address A. Quite often (because speculation has got better) the CMCI from the
    memory controller is delivered before the core is committed to the instruction reading address A, so the
    interrupt is taken, and Linux offlines the page (marking it as poison). ## Why user process is killed for
    instr case Commit 046545a661af (mm/hwpoison: fix error page recovered but reported not ---truncated---
    (CVE-2025-39989)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
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include('rpm.inc');

if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var release = get_kb_item('Host/AzureLinux/release');
if (isnull(release) || 'Azure Linux' >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Azure Linux');
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Azure Linux ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'Azure Linux');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^3([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Azure Linux 3.0', 'Azure Linux ' + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item('Host/AzureLinux/rpm-list')) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 'aarch64' >!< cpu)
  audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Azure Linux', cpu);

var pkgs = [
    {'reference':'bpftool-6.6.92.2-1.azl3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bpftool-6.6.92.2-1.azl3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'kernel-6.6.92.2-1.azl3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'kernel-6.6.92.2-1.azl3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'kernel-debuginfo-6.6.92.2-1.azl3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'kernel-debuginfo-6.6.92.2-1.azl3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'kernel-devel-6.6.92.2-1.azl3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'kernel-devel-6.6.92.2-1.azl3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'kernel-docs-6.6.92.2-1.azl3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'kernel-docs-6.6.92.2-1.azl3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'kernel-drivers-accessibility-6.6.92.2-1.azl3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'kernel-drivers-accessibility-6.6.92.2-1.azl3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'kernel-drivers-gpu-6.6.92.2-1.azl3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'kernel-drivers-gpu-6.6.92.2-1.azl3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'kernel-drivers-intree-amdgpu-6.6.92.2-1.azl3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'kernel-drivers-intree-amdgpu-6.6.92.2-1.azl3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'kernel-drivers-sound-6.6.92.2-1.azl3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'kernel-drivers-sound-6.6.92.2-1.azl3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'kernel-tools-6.6.92.2-1.azl3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'kernel-tools-6.6.92.2-1.azl3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'python3-perf-6.6.92.2-1.azl3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'python3-perf-6.6.92.2-1.azl3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
];

var flag = 0;
foreach var package_array ( pkgs ) {
  var reference = NULL;
  var _release = NULL;
  var sp = NULL;
  var _cpu = NULL;
  var el_string = NULL;
  var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
  var epoch = NULL;
  var allowmaj = NULL;
  var exists_check = NULL;
  var cves = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = 'Azure Linux ' + package_array['release'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['sp'])) sp = package_array['sp'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cpu'])) _cpu = package_array['cpu'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['el_string'])) el_string = package_array['el_string'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['epoch'])) epoch = package_array['epoch'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = package_array['allowmaj'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['exists_check'])) exists_check = package_array['exists_check'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cves'])) cves = package_array['cves'];
  if (reference && _release && (!exists_check || rpm_exists(release:_release, rpm:exists_check))) {
    if (rpm_check(release:_release, sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, epoch:epoch, el_string:el_string, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp, allowmaj:allowmaj, cves:cves)) flag++;
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
      extra      : rpm_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'bpftool / kernel / kernel-debuginfo / kernel-devel / kernel-docs / etc');
}

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22 Jan 2026 00:00Current
6.9Medium risk
Vulners AI Score6.9
CVSS 3.15.5
EPSS0.00201
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