Vulnerability in Linux

CVE-2025-40158

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: use RCU in ip6_output() Use RCU in ip6_output() in order to use dst_dev_rcu() to prevent possible UAF. We can remove rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock() pairs from…

EPSS: 0.002 (8.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Linux — versions 4a6ce2b6f2ecabbddcfe47e7cf61dd0f00b10e36, 4.13, 0

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