CVE-2025-40281 — Incorrect Bitwise Shift of Integer in Linux
Severity
7.8HIGHOSV
OSV3.2
No vectorEPSS
0.1%
top 79.04%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 6
Latest updateApr 13
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sctp: prevent possible shift-out-of-bounds in sctp_transport_update_rto
syzbot reported a possible shift-out-of-bounds [1]
Blamed commit added rto_alpha_max and rto_beta_max set to 1000.
It is unclear if some sctp users are setting very large rto_alpha
and/or rto_beta.
In order to prevent user regression, perform the test at run time.
Also add READ_ONCE() annotations as sysctl values can change under us.
[1]
UBSAN: shift…
Affected Packages7 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxb58537a1f5629bdc98a8b9dc2051ce0e952f6b4b — 0e0413e3315199b23ff4aec295e256034cd0a6e4+8