CVE-2025-40291

CVE-2025-40291

High · published December 8, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

io_uring: fix regbuf vector size truncation

There is a report of io_estimate_bvec_size() truncating the calculated

number of segments that leads to corruption issues. Check it doesn't

overflow "int"s used later. Rough but simple, can be improved on top.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00144 · 3.4th percentile
Published
2025-12-08T06:16Z
References (2)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 08 DEC 00:46Z
    io_uring: fix regbuf vector size truncation
    cvelistv5