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CVE-2025-40342 (GCVE-0-2025-40342)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-09 04:09 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:09
VLAI
Title
nvme-fc: use lock accessing port_state and rport state
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvme-fc: use lock accessing port_state and rport state nvme_fc_unregister_remote removes the remote port on a lport object at any point in time when there is no active association. This races with with the reconnect logic, because nvme_fc_create_association is not taking a lock to check the port_state and atomically increase the active count on the rport.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: e399441de9115cd472b8ace6c517708273ca7997 , < de3d91af47bc015031e7721b100a29989f6498a5 (git)
Affected: e399441de9115cd472b8ace6c517708273ca7997 , < e8cde03de8674b05f2c5e0870729049eba517800 (git)
Affected: e399441de9115cd472b8ace6c517708273ca7997 , < 4253e0a4546138a2bf9cb6acf66b32fee677fc7c (git)
Affected: e399441de9115cd472b8ace6c517708273ca7997 , < 25f4bf1f7979a7871974fd36c79d69ff1cf4b446 (git)
Affected: e399441de9115cd472b8ace6c517708273ca7997 , < 9950af4303942081dc8c7a5fdc3688c17c7eb6c0 (git)
Affected: e399441de9115cd472b8ace6c517708273ca7997 , < a2f7fa75c4a2a07328fa22ccbef461db76790b55 (git)
Affected: e399441de9115cd472b8ace6c517708273ca7997 , < 891cdbb162ccdb079cd5228ae43bdeebce8597ad (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.10
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.10 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.247 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.197 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.159 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.117 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.58 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.8 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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