CVE-2025-40240 (GCVE-0-2025-40240)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-04 15:31 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:45
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Title
sctp: avoid NULL dereference when chunk data buffer is missing
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sctp: avoid NULL dereference when chunk data buffer is missing chunk->skb pointer is dereferenced in the if-block where it's supposed to be NULL only. chunk->skb can only be NULL if chunk->head_skb is not. Check for frag_list instead and do it just before replacing chunk->skb. We're sure that otherwise chunk->skb is non-NULL because of outer if() condition.
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Linux Linux Affected: 90017accff61ae89283ad9a51f9ac46ca01633fb , < 61cda2777b07d27459f5cac5a047c3edf9c8a1a9 (git)
Affected: 90017accff61ae89283ad9a51f9ac46ca01633fb , < 08165c296597075763130919f2aae59b5822f016 (git)
Affected: 90017accff61ae89283ad9a51f9ac46ca01633fb , < 03e80a4b04ef1fb2c61dd63216ab8d3a5dcb196f (git)
Affected: 90017accff61ae89283ad9a51f9ac46ca01633fb , < 4f6da435fb5d8a21cbf8cae5ca5a2ba0e1012b71 (git)
Affected: 90017accff61ae89283ad9a51f9ac46ca01633fb , < cb9055ba30306ede4ad920002233d0659982f1cb (git)
Affected: 90017accff61ae89283ad9a51f9ac46ca01633fb , < 7a832b0f99be19df608cb75c023f8027b1789bd1 (git)
Affected: 90017accff61ae89283ad9a51f9ac46ca01633fb , < 89b465b54227c245ddc7cc9ed822231af21123ef (git)
Affected: 90017accff61ae89283ad9a51f9ac46ca01633fb , < 441f0647f7673e0e64d4910ef61a5fb8f16bfb82 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.301 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.246 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.196 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.158 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.115 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.56 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.6 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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