CVE-2025-40262 (GCVE-0-2025-40262)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-04 16:08 – Updated: 2025-12-04 16:08
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Input: imx_sc_key - fix memory corruption on unload This is supposed to be "priv" but we accidentally pass "&priv" which is an address in the stack and so it will lead to memory corruption when the imx_sc_key_action() function is called. Remove the &.
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Linux Linux Affected: 768062fd1284529212daffd360314e9aa93abb62 , < ca9a08de9b294422376f47ade323d69590dbc6f2 (git)
Affected: 768062fd1284529212daffd360314e9aa93abb62 , < 56881294915a6e866d31a46f9bcb5e19167cfbaa (git)
Affected: 768062fd1284529212daffd360314e9aa93abb62 , < 6524a15d33951b18ac408ebbcb9c16e14e21c336 (git)
Affected: 768062fd1284529212daffd360314e9aa93abb62 , < d83f1512758f4ef6fc5e83219fe7eeeb6b428ea4 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 5.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.118 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.60 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.10 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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