CVE-2025-40193

CVE-2025-40193

published November 13, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
9.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

xtensa: simdisk: add input size check in proc_write_simdisk

A malicious user could pass an arbitrarily bad value

to memdup_user_nul(), potentially causing kernel crash.

This follows the same pattern as commit ee76746387f6

("netdevsim: prevent bad user input in nsim_dev_health_break_write()")

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00203 · 9.8th percentile
Published
2025-11-13T03:15Z
References (5)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 NOV 21:56Z
    xtensa: simdisk: add input size check in proc_write_simdisk
    cvelistv5