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CVE-2025-39742

kernel: RDMA: hfi1: fix possible divide-by-zero in find_hw_thread_mask()

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · September 11, 2025

Updated · June 30, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

RDMA: hfi1: fix possible divide-by-zero in find_hw_thread_mask()

The function divides number of online CPUs by num_core_siblings, and later checks the divider by zero. This implies a possibility to get and divide-by-zero runtime error. Fix it by moving the check prior to division. This also helps to save one indentation level.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-369 · Divide By Zero