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GHSA-CC93-7WPM-WQH7

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-11-13 00:30 – Updated: 2026-07-30 06:32

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ipmi: Rework user message limit handling

The limit on the number of user messages had a number of issues, improper counting in some cases and a use after free.

Restructure how this is all done to handle more in the receive message allocation routine, so all refcouting and user message limit counts are done in that routine. It's a lot cleaner and safer.

Severity

7.8 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2025-40202 (GCVE-0-2025-40202)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-12 21:56 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:08

Title

ipmi: Rework user message limit handling

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipmi: Rework user message limit handling The limit on the number of user messages had a number of issues, improper counting in some cases and a use after free. Restructure how this is all done to handle more in the receive message allocation routine, so all refcouting and user message limit counts are done in that routine. It's a lot cleaner and safer.

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6843 records in the last 180 days details

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f63723ca7d7623f9d…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/348121b29594d42d1…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/53d6e403affbf6df2…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ed73be9a2547ffb9…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b52da4054ee0bf9ec…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 8e76741c3d8b20dfa2d6c30fa10ff927cfd93d82 , < f63723ca7d7623f9dae1990973cd158671f03c56 (git) Affected: 8e76741c3d8b20dfa2d6c30fa10ff927cfd93d82 , < 348121b29594d42d1635648fd3ed31dfa25351d5 (git) Affected: 8e76741c3d8b20dfa2d6c30fa10ff927cfd93d82 , < 53d6e403affbf6df2c859a0ea00ccfc1e72090ca (git) Affected: 8e76741c3d8b20dfa2d6c30fa10ff927cfd93d82 , < 0ed73be9a2547ffb9b5c1d879ad9bfab73d920b5 (git) Affected: 8e76741c3d8b20dfa2d6c30fa10ff927cfd93d82 , < b52da4054ee0bf9ecb44996f2c83236ff50b3812 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.19 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.19 (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.157 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.113 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.54 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.17.4 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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