CVE-2025-40199 — Out-of-bounds Read in Linux
Severity
7.0HIGH
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 94.67%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedNov 12
Latest updateFeb 24
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
page_pool: Fix PP_MAGIC_MASK to avoid crashing on some 32-bit arches
Helge reported that the introduction of PP_MAGIC_MASK let to crashes on
boot on his 32-bit parisc machine. The cause of this is the mask is set
too wide, so the page_pool_page_is_pp() incurs false positives which
crashes the machine.
Just disabling the check in page_pool_is_pp() will lead to the page_pool
code itself malfunctioning; so instead of doing this,…
Affected Packages5 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux4f51fb0d257ff4d406ec27966902de075e3b118e — 15b8a5b4cdc16e9a8bb2a548e12a0fd92997605a+4