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FKIE_CVE-2025-40135

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-11-12 11:15 - Updated: 2025-11-12 16:19

Severity ?

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: use RCU in ip6_xmit() Use RCU in ip6_xmit() in order to use dst_dev_rcu() to prevent possible UAF.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9085e56501d93af9f2d7bd16f7fcfacdde47b99c
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f7f9e924f23684b4b23cd9f976cceab24a968e34

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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    }
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  "id": "CVE-2025-40135",
  "lastModified": "2025-11-12T16:19:12.850",
  "metrics": {},
  "published": "2025-11-12T11:15:43.220",
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  "vulnStatus": "Awaiting Analysis"
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CVE-2025-40135 (GCVE-0-2025-40135)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-12 10:23 – Updated: 2025-12-01 06:18

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: use RCU in ip6_xmit() Use RCU in ip6_xmit() in order to use dst_dev_rcu() to prevent possible UAF.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f7f9e924f23684b4b…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9085e56501d93af9f…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Linux

Affected: 4a6ce2b6f2ecabbddcfe47e7cf61dd0f00b10e36 , < f7f9e924f23684b4b23cd9f976cceab24a968e34 (git)
Affected: 4a6ce2b6f2ecabbddcfe47e7cf61dd0f00b10e36 , < 9085e56501d93af9f2d7bd16f7fcfacdde47b99c (git)

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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CVE-2025-40135 (GCVE-0-2025-40135)

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