CVE-2025-40168 (GCVE-0-2025-40168)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-12 10:46 – Updated: 2026-09-02 12:49
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
smc: Use __sk_dst_get() and dst_dev_rcu() in smc_clc_prfx_match().
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smc: Use __sk_dst_get() and dst_dev_rcu() in smc_clc_prfx_match().
smc_clc_prfx_match() is called from smc_listen_work() and
not under RCU nor RTNL.
Using sk_dst_get(sk)->dev could trigger UAF.
Let's use __sk_dst_get() and dst_dev_rcu().
Note that the returned value of smc_clc_prfx_match() is not
used in the caller.
Severity
8.1 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-06-16 19:59 UTC
Assigner
References
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
a046d57da19f812216f393e7c535f5858f793ac3 , < 3f119c37aa293af41400cccb3d89fab8dcf774b0
(git)
Affected: a046d57da19f812216f393e7c535f5858f793ac3 , < 4f5f52a5842937f945582a93cb9daed9ea526fee (git) Affected: a046d57da19f812216f393e7c535f5858f793ac3 , < 326e5cf301d0bec0a672aa834d8254c4f9df6255 (git) Affected: a046d57da19f812216f393e7c535f5858f793ac3 , < d26e80f7fb62d77757b67a1b94e4ac756bc9c658 (git) Affected: a046d57da19f812216f393e7c535f5858f793ac3 , < 235f81045c008169cc4e1955b4a64e118eebe61b (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
4.11
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.11 (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.187 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.156 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.108 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.17.3 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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"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)-\u003edev could trigger UAF.\n\nLet\u0027s 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."
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"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 \u2192 smc_listen_find_device \u2192 smc_listen_prfx_check \u2192 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-\u003edev is dereferenced), but the other side requires the route\u0027s 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\u0027s 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\u0027s 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."
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