fkie_nvd - fkie_cve-2025-40057

fkie_cve-2025-40057

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd

Published

2025-10-28 12:15

Modified

2025-10-30 15:05

Severity ?

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ptp: Add a upper bound on max_vclocks syzbot reported WARNING in max_vclocks_store. This occurs when the argument max is too large for kcalloc to handle. Extend the guard to guard against values that are too large for kcalloc

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35ce5f163889dbce88eda1df661b357a09bbed87
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8dd446056336faa2283d62cefc2f576536845edc
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e9f35294e18da82162004a2f35976e7031aaf7f9

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nptp: Add a upper bound on max_vclocks\n\nsyzbot reported WARNING in max_vclocks_store.\n\nThis occurs when the argument max is too large for kcalloc to handle.\n\nExtend the guard to guard against values that are too large for\nkcalloc"
    }
  ],
  "id": "CVE-2025-40057",
  "lastModified": "2025-10-30T15:05:32.197",
  "metrics": {},
  "published": "2025-10-28T12:15:40.033",
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  "vulnStatus": "Awaiting Analysis"
}

CVE-2025-40057 (GCVE-0-2025-40057)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-10-28 11:48

Modified

2025-10-28 11:48

Severity ?

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ptp: Add a upper bound on max_vclocks syzbot reported WARNING in max_vclocks_store. This occurs when the argument max is too large for kcalloc to handle. Extend the guard to guard against values that are too large for kcalloc

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8dd446056336faa2283d62cefc2f576536845edc
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35ce5f163889dbce88eda1df661b357a09bbed87
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e9f35294e18da82162004a2f35976e7031aaf7f9

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Version: 73f37068d540eba5f93ba3a0019bf479d35ebd76
Version: 73f37068d540eba5f93ba3a0019bf479d35ebd76
Version: 73f37068d540eba5f93ba3a0019bf479d35ebd76

Version: 5.14

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