CVE-2025-40236

CVE-2025-40236

published December 4, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
7.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

virtio-net: zero unused hash fields

When GSO tunnel is negotiated virtio_net_hdr_tnl_from_skb() tries to

initialize the tunnel metadata but forget to zero unused rxhash

fields. This may leak information to another side. Fixing this by

zeroing the unused hash fields.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00186 · 7.8th percentile
Published
2025-12-04T21:16Z
References (2)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 04 DEC 15:31Z
    virtio-net: zero unused hash fields
    cvelistv5