CVE-2025-40141 (GCVE-0-2025-40141)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-12 10:23 – Updated: 2026-10-15 22:02
VLAI
Title
Bluetooth: ISO: Fix possible UAF on iso_conn_free
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: ISO: Fix possible UAF on iso_conn_free This attempt to fix similar issue to sco_conn_free where if the conn->sk is not set to NULL may lead to UAF on iso_conn_free.
Severity
8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-10-15 21:57 UTC
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7033 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: ccf74f2390d60a2f9a75ef496d2564abb478f46a , < eba6d787ec117a5d2c60f9644e0a39c18542b6be (git)
Affected: ccf74f2390d60a2f9a75ef496d2564abb478f46a , < 5319145a07d8bf5b0782b25cb3115825689d42bb (git)
Affected: ccf74f2390d60a2f9a75ef496d2564abb478f46a , < 80689777919f02328eb873769de4647c9dd3e371 (git)
Affected: ccf74f2390d60a2f9a75ef496d2564abb478f46a , < c92ad1a155ccfa38b87bd1d998287e1c0a24248d (git)
Affected: ccf74f2390d60a2f9a75ef496d2564abb478f46a , < 9950f095d6c875dbe0c9ebfcf972ec88fdf26fc8 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.0
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.0 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.156 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.112 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.53 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.3 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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