Files
vuln-cve/data/2025/40xxx/CVE-2025-40168.json
T

235 lines
12 KiB
JSON

{
"dataType": "CVE_RECORD",
"dataVersion": "5.2",
"cveMetadata": {
"cveId": "CVE-2025-40168",
"assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
"state": "PUBLISHED",
"assignerShortName": "Linux",
"dateReserved": "2025-04-16T07:20:57.176Z",
"datePublished": "2025-11-12T10:46:51.422Z",
"dateUpdated": "2026-09-02T12:49:28.040Z"
},
"containers": {
"cna": {
"providerMetadata": {
"orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
"shortName": "Linux",
"dateUpdated": "2026-09-02T12:49:28.040Z"
},
"descriptions": [
{
"lang": "en",
"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsmc: Use __sk_dst_get() and dst_dev_rcu() in smc_clc_prfx_match().\n\nsmc_clc_prfx_match() is called from smc_listen_work() and\nnot under RCU nor RTNL.\n\nUsing sk_dst_get(sk)->dev could trigger UAF.\n\nLet's use __sk_dst_get() and dst_dev_rcu().\n\nNote that the returned value of smc_clc_prfx_match() is not\nused in the caller."
}
],
"metrics": [
{
"cvssV3_1": {
"version": "3.1",
"vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
"baseScore": 8.1,
"baseSeverity": "HIGH"
},
"scenarios": [
{
"lang": "en",
"value": "AV:N - The vulnerable read is performed by the SMC listen worker while parsing a CLC Proposal message received over TCP from a remote peer (smc_listen_work → smc_listen_find_device → smc_listen_prfx_check → smc_clc_prfx_match), and the peer controls the fields that select and drive the code path. Any host running an AF_SMC listener is exposed to unauthenticated remote connections.\nAC:H - The attacker fully controls one side of the race (when the CLC Proposal arrives and thus when the stale dst->dev is dereferenced), but the other side requires the route's net_device to be concurrently torn down via dst_dev_put()/free_netdev(), which a remote attacker cannot induce or time.\nPR:N - The CLC handshake is the first exchange on the connection and SMC performs no authentication before smc_clc_prfx_match() runs, so an unauthenticated remote attacker reaches the bug with no credentials of any kind.\nUI:N - Triggering requires only that the attacker complete a TCP handshake with the SMC option and send a CLC Proposal; no action by any local user or administrator is needed.\nS:U - The use-after-free is confined to kernel memory (the net_device slab and the in_dev/inet6_dev structures it points at) within the kernel's own security authority; no VM, IOMMU, or sandbox boundary is crossed.\nC:H - The freed net_device is dereferenced and its ifa_list/addr_list walked, and since a reclaimed slab can be groomed with attacker-controlled data this yields an arbitrary kernel-memory read primitive; the match/no-match outcome is additionally returned to the peer as SMC_CLC_DECL_DIFFPREFIX, forming a remotely observable oracle on freed memory contents.\nI:H - A use-after-free of a net_device is a heap-corruption primitive: the reclaimed object's contents are attacker-influencable via heap spraying and the code follows pointers out of it, which can be groomed into an arbitrary write and control-flow hijack.\nA:H - Dereferencing the freed net_device and walking a bogus in_dev/inet6_dev address list reliably produces a kernel oops, panic, or an unbounded list walk, crashing the system."
}
]
}
],
"affected": [
{
"product": "Linux",
"vendor": "Linux",
"defaultStatus": "unaffected",
"repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
"programFiles": [
"net/smc/smc_clc.c"
],
"versions": [
{
"version": "a046d57da19f812216f393e7c535f5858f793ac3",
"lessThan": "3f119c37aa293af41400cccb3d89fab8dcf774b0",
"status": "affected",
"versionType": "git"
},
{
"version": "a046d57da19f812216f393e7c535f5858f793ac3",
"lessThan": "4f5f52a5842937f945582a93cb9daed9ea526fee",
"status": "affected",
"versionType": "git"
},
{
"version": "a046d57da19f812216f393e7c535f5858f793ac3",
"lessThan": "326e5cf301d0bec0a672aa834d8254c4f9df6255",
"status": "affected",
"versionType": "git"
},
{
"version": "a046d57da19f812216f393e7c535f5858f793ac3",
"lessThan": "d26e80f7fb62d77757b67a1b94e4ac756bc9c658",
"status": "affected",
"versionType": "git"
},
{
"version": "a046d57da19f812216f393e7c535f5858f793ac3",
"lessThan": "235f81045c008169cc4e1955b4a64e118eebe61b",
"status": "affected",
"versionType": "git"
}
]
},
{
"product": "Linux",
"vendor": "Linux",
"defaultStatus": "affected",
"repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
"programFiles": [
"net/smc/smc_clc.c"
],
"versions": [
{
"version": "4.11",
"status": "affected"
},
{
"version": "0",
"lessThan": "4.11",
"status": "unaffected",
"versionType": "semver"
},
{
"version": "6.1.187",
"lessThanOrEqual": "6.1.*",
"status": "unaffected",
"versionType": "semver"
},
{
"version": "6.6.156",
"lessThanOrEqual": "6.6.*",
"status": "unaffected",
"versionType": "semver"
},
{
"version": "6.12.108",
"lessThanOrEqual": "6.12.*",
"status": "unaffected",
"versionType": "semver"
},
{
"version": "6.17.3",
"lessThanOrEqual": "6.17.*",
"status": "unaffected",
"versionType": "semver"
},
{
"version": "6.18",
"lessThanOrEqual": "*",
"status": "unaffected",
"versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"
}
]
}
],
"cpeApplicability": [
{
"nodes": [
{
"operator": "OR",
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"vulnerable": true,
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"versionStartIncluding": "4.11",
"versionEndExcluding": "6.1.187"
},
{
"vulnerable": true,
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"versionStartIncluding": "4.11",
"versionEndExcluding": "6.6.156"
},
{
"vulnerable": true,
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"versionStartIncluding": "4.11",
"versionEndExcluding": "6.12.108"
},
{
"vulnerable": true,
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"versionStartIncluding": "4.11",
"versionEndExcluding": "6.17.3"
},
{
"vulnerable": true,
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"versionStartIncluding": "4.11",
"versionEndExcluding": "6.18"
}
]
}
]
}
],
"references": [
{
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f119c37aa293af41400cccb3d89fab8dcf774b0"
},
{
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f5f52a5842937f945582a93cb9daed9ea526fee"
},
{
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/326e5cf301d0bec0a672aa834d8254c4f9df6255"
},
{
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d26e80f7fb62d77757b67a1b94e4ac756bc9c658"
},
{
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/235f81045c008169cc4e1955b4a64e118eebe61b"
}
],
"title": "smc: Use __sk_dst_get() and dst_dev_rcu() in smc_clc_prfx_match().",
"x_generator": {
"engine": "bippy-1.2.0"
}
},
"adp": [
{
"metrics": [
{
"other": {
"type": "ssvc",
"content": {
"timestamp": "2026-06-16T19:59:59.004592Z",
"id": "CVE-2025-40168",
"options": [
{
"Exploitation": "none"
},
{
"Automatable": "no"
},
{
"Technical Impact": "partial"
}
],
"role": "CISA Coordinator",
"version": "2.0.3"
}
}
}
],
"title": "CISA ADP Vulnrichment",
"providerMetadata": {
"orgId": "134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0",
"shortName": "CISA-ADP",
"dateUpdated": "2026-06-16T20:00:14.873Z"
}
}
]
}
}