Vulnerability in Linux
CVE-2025-40192
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Revert "ipmi: fix msg stack when IPMI is disconnected" This reverts commit c608966f3f9c2dca596967501d00753282b395fc. This patch has a subtle bug that can cause the IPMI driver to go into an infinite loop if the BMC misbehaves in a certain way. Apparently certain BMCs do misbehave this way because several reports have come in recently about this.
EPSS: 0.002 (8.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Linux — versions c608966f3f9c2dca596967501d00753282b395fc, 6.2, 0