CVE-2025-40005

CVE-2025-40005

Medium · published October 20, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
9.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

spi: cadence-quadspi: Implement refcount to handle unbind during busy

driver support indirect read and indirect write operation with

assumption no force device removal(unbind) operation. However

force device removal(removal) is still available to root superuser.

Unbinding driver during operation causes kernel crash. This changes

ensure driver able to handle such operation for indirect read and

indirect write by implementing refcount to track attached devices

to the controller and gracefully wait and until attached devices

remove operation completed before proceed with removal operation.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00198 · 9.1th percentile
Published
2025-10-20T20:15Z
Affected products (6)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.16.106.16.10
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.9, < 6.6.1256.6.125
References (6)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 20 OCT 15:26Z
    spi: cadence-quadspi: Implement refcount to handle unbind during busy
    cvelistv5