CVE-2025-40192 (GCVE-0-2025-40192)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-11-12 21:56
Modified
2025-11-12 21:56
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Revert "ipmi: fix msg stack when IPMI is disconnected" This reverts commit c608966f3f9c2dca596967501d00753282b395fc. This patch has a subtle bug that can cause the IPMI driver to go into an infinite loop if the BMC misbehaves in a certain way. Apparently certain BMCs do misbehave this way because several reports have come in recently about this.
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Linux Linux Version: c608966f3f9c2dca596967501d00753282b395fc
Version: c608966f3f9c2dca596967501d00753282b395fc
Version: c608966f3f9c2dca596967501d00753282b395fc
Version: c608966f3f9c2dca596967501d00753282b395fc
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