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CVE-2025-40364 (GCVE-0-2025-40364)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-18 13:50 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:09
VLAI
Title
io_uring: fix io_req_prep_async with provided buffers
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring: fix io_req_prep_async with provided buffers io_req_prep_async() can import provided buffers, commit the ring state by giving up on that before, it'll be reimported later if needed.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: c7fb19428d67dd0a2a78a4f237af01d39c78dc5a , < 233b210a678bddf8b49b02a070074a52b87e6d43 (git)
Affected: c7fb19428d67dd0a2a78a4f237af01d39c78dc5a , < a1b17713b32c75a90132ea2f92b1257f3bbc20f3 (git)
Affected: c7fb19428d67dd0a2a78a4f237af01d39c78dc5a , < b86f1d51731e621e83305dc9564ae14c9ef752bf (git)
Affected: c7fb19428d67dd0a2a78a4f237af01d39c78dc5a , < a94592ec30ff67dc36c424327f1e0a9ceeeb9bd3 (git)
Affected: c7fb19428d67dd0a2a78a4f237af01d39c78dc5a , < 35ae7910c349fb3c60439992e2e0e79061e95382 (git)
Affected: c7fb19428d67dd0a2a78a4f237af01d39c78dc5a , < f0ef94553868d07c1b14d7743a7e2553e5a831a3 (git)
Affected: c7fb19428d67dd0a2a78a4f237af01d39c78dc5a , < d63b0e8a628e62ca85a0f7915230186bb92f8bb4 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.19
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.19 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.129 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.78 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.14 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.13.3 , ≤ 6.13.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.14 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
      "status": "final",
      "title": "kernel: io_uring: fix io_req_prep_async with provided buffers",
      "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2025/cve-2025-40364.json",
      "version": "3"
    }
  }
}



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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

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Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.