CVE-2025-40319 — Expired Pointer Dereference in Linux
Severity
7.8HIGHOSV
OSV3.2
No vectorEPSS
0.1%
top 78.93%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 8
Latest updateApr 13
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: Sync pending IRQ work before freeing ring buffer
Fix a race where irq_work can be queued in bpf_ringbuf_commit()
but the ring buffer is freed before the work executes.
In the syzbot reproducer, a BPF program attached to sched_switch
triggers bpf_ringbuf_commit(), queuing an irq_work. If the ring buffer
is freed before this work executes, the irq_work thread may accesses
freed memory.
Calling `irq_work_sync(&rb->work)` ens…
Affected Packages7 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux457f44363a8894135c85b7a9afd2bd8196db24ab — 47626748a2a00068dbbd5836d19076637b4e235b+7