CVE-2025-40187

CVE-2025-40187

High · published November 13, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
49.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

net/sctp: fix a null dereference in sctp_disposition sctp_sf_do_5_1D_ce()

If new_asoc->peer.adaptation_ind=0 and sctp_ulpevent_make_authkey=0

and sctp_ulpevent_make_authkey() returns 0, then the variable

ai_ev remains zero and the zero will be dereferenced

in the sctp_ulpevent_free() function.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00638 · 49.9th percentile
Published
2025-11-13T03:15Z
References (8)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 NOV 21:56Z
    net/sctp: fix a null dereference in sctp_disposition sctp_sf_do_5_1D_ce()
    cvelistv5