CVE-2025-40331

CVE-2025-40331

High · published December 9, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
8.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

sctp: Prevent TOCTOU out-of-bounds write

For the following path not holding the sock lock,

sctp_diag_dump() -> sctp_for_each_endpoint() -> sctp_ep_dump()

make sure not to exceed bounds in case the address list has grown

between buffer allocation (time-of-check) and write (time-of-use).

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
0.00188 · 8.0th percentile
Published
2025-12-09T21:17Z
References (8)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 09 DEC 04:09Z
    sctp: Prevent TOCTOU out-of-bounds write
    cvelistv5