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FKIE_CVE-2025-40217

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-12-04 15:15 - Updated: 2025-12-04 17:15

Severity ?

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pidfs: validate extensible ioctls Validate extensible ioctls stricter than we do now.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c17001b21b9f168c957ced9384abe969019b609
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf0fbf5e8b0aff8a4a0fb35e32b10083baa83c04

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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  "lastModified": "2025-12-04T17:15:08.283",
  "metrics": {},
  "published": "2025-12-04T15:15:57.510",
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  "vulnStatus": "Awaiting Analysis"
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CVE-2025-40217 (GCVE-0-2025-40217)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-04 14:50 – Updated: 2025-12-06 04:14

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pidfs: validate extensible ioctls Validate extensible ioctls stricter than we do now.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf0fbf5e8b0aff8a4…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c17001b21b9f168c…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Linux

Affected: 5b08bd408534bfb3a7cf5778da5b27d4e4fffe12 , < bf0fbf5e8b0aff8a4a0fb35e32b10083baa83c04 (git)
Affected: 5b08bd408534bfb3a7cf5778da5b27d4e4fffe12 , < 3c17001b21b9f168c957ced9384abe969019b609 (git)

Linux

Affected: 6.11
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.11 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.4 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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FKIE_CVE-2025-40217

CVE-2025-40217 (GCVE-0-2025-40217)

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