CVE-2025-40217 (GCVE-0-2025-40217)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-04 14:50
Modified
2025-12-06 04:14
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pidfs: validate extensible ioctls Validate extensible ioctls stricter than we do now.
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Linux Linux Version: 5b08bd408534bfb3a7cf5778da5b27d4e4fffe12
Version: 5b08bd408534bfb3a7cf5778da5b27d4e4fffe12
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