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CVE-2025-40158 (GCVE-0-2025-40158)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-12 10:23 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:08
VLAI
Title
ipv6: use RCU in ip6_output()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: use RCU in ip6_output() Use RCU in ip6_output() in order to use dst_dev_rcu() to prevent possible UAF. We can remove rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock() pairs from ip6_finish_output2().
Severity
8.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-06-16 20:00 UTC
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 4a6ce2b6f2ecabbddcfe47e7cf61dd0f00b10e36 , < 0393f85c3241c19ba8550f04a812e7d19f6b3082 (git)
Affected: 4a6ce2b6f2ecabbddcfe47e7cf61dd0f00b10e36 , < 11709573cc4e48dc34c80fc7ab9ce5b159e29695 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.13
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.13 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.3 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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