CVE-2025-40291 (GCVE-0-2025-40291)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-08 00:46
Modified
2025-12-08 00:46
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring: fix regbuf vector size truncation There is a report of io_estimate_bvec_size() truncating the calculated number of segments that leads to corruption issues. Check it doesn't overflow "int"s used later. Rough but simple, can be improved on top.
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Linux Linux Version: 9ef4cbbcb4ac3786a1a4164507511b76b2a572c5
Version: 9ef4cbbcb4ac3786a1a4164507511b76b2a572c5
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