CVE-2025-40274 — Linux vulnerability
15 documents6 sources
Severity
—N/A
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 90.90%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 6
Latest updateFeb 24
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: guest_memfd: Remove bindings on memslot deletion when gmem is dying
When unbinding a memslot from a guest_memfd instance, remove the bindings
even if the guest_memfd file is dying, i.e. even if its file refcount has
gone to zero. If the memslot is freed before the file is fully released,
nullifying the memslot side of the binding in kvm_gmem_release() will
write to freed memory, as detected by syzbot+KASAN:
BUG: KASAN: s…
Affected Packages5 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxa7800aa80ea4d5356b8474c2302812e9d4926fa6 — a8ac2bd0f98e1a230f1eb3260fa552bf2ef1753b+3