CVE-2025-40363 — Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size in Linux
Severity
7.8HIGHOSV
OSV3.2
No vectorEPSS
0.1%
top 79.07%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 16
Latest updateApr 13
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: ipv6: fix field-spanning memcpy warning in AH output
Fix field-spanning memcpy warnings in ah6_output() and
ah6_output_done() where extension headers are copied to/from IPv6
address fields, triggering fortify-string warnings about writes beyond
the 16-byte address fields.
memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 40) of single field "&top_iph->saddr" at net/ipv6/ah6.c:439 (size 16)
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 8838 at net/ipv6…
Affected Packages6 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 — 2da805a61ef5272a2773775ce14c3650adb84248+8