CVE-2025-40091

unknown

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ixgbe: fix too early devlink_free() in ixgbe_remove() Since ixgbe_adapter is embedded in devlink, calling devlink_free() prematurely in the ixgbe_remove() path can lead to UAF. Move devlink_free() to the end. KASAN report: BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ixgbe_reset_interrupt_capability+0x140/0x180 [ixgbe] Read of size 8 at addr ffff0000adf813e0 by task bash/2095 CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 2095 Comm: bash Tainted: G S 6.17.0-rc2-tnguy.net-queue+ #1 PREEMPT(full) [...] Call trace: show_stack+0x30/0x90 (C) dump_stack_lvl+0x9c/0xd0 print_address_description.constprop.0+0x90/0x310 print_report+0x104/0x1f0 kasan_report+0x88/0x180 __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x20/0x30 ixgbe_reset_interrupt_capability+0x140/0x180 [ixgbe] ixgbe_clear_interrupt_scheme+0xf8/0x130 [ixgbe] ixgbe_remove+0x2d0/0x8c0 [ixgbe] pci_device_remove+0xa0/0x220 device_remove+0xb8/0x170 device_release_driver_internal+0x318/0x490 device_driver_detach+0x40/0x68 unbind_store+0xec/0x118 drv_attr_store+0x64/0xb8 sysfs_kf_write+0xcc/0x138 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x294/0x440 new_sync_write+0x1fc/0x588 vfs_write+0x480/0x6a0 ksys_write+0xf0/0x1e0 __arm64_sys_write+0x70/0xc0 invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0xcc/0x280 el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xa8/0x248 do_el0_svc+0x44/0x68 el0_svc+0x54/0x160 el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa0/0xe8 el0t_64_sync+0x1b0/0x1b8

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`0`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`0`
debian	forky	fixed	`6.17.6-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`6.17.6-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`0`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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