CVE-2025-40022

CVE-2025-40022

published October 24, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
14.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

crypto: af_alg - Fix incorrect boolean values in af_alg_ctx

Commit 1b34cbbf4f01 ("crypto: af_alg - Disallow concurrent writes in

af_alg_sendmsg") changed some fields from bool to 1-bit bitfields of

type u32.

However, some assignments to these fields, specifically 'more' and

'merge', assign values greater than 1. These relied on C's implicit

conversion to bool, such that zero becomes false and nonzero becomes

true.

With a 1-bit bitfields of type u32 instead, mod 2 of the value is taken

instead, resulting in 0 being assigned in some cases when 1 was intended.

Fix this by restoring the bool type.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00238 · 14.0th percentile
Published
2025-10-24T17:15Z
References (10)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 24 OCT 12:24Z
    crypto: af_alg - Fix incorrect boolean values in af_alg_ctx
    cvelistv5