CVE-2025-40170

HIGH
MEDIUM Priority: 0.02 BB Relevance: 41/100
Published: 2025-11-12 Modified: 2026-10-30 First seen: 2026-10-30 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Interaction Conf. Impact Integ. Impact

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local
AC: Low
PR: Low
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: High
I: High
A: High

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: use dst_dev_rcu() in sk_setup_caps() Use RCU to protect accesses to dst->dev from sk_setup_caps() and sk_dst_gso_max_size(). Also use dst_dev_rcu() in ip6_dst_mtu_maybe_forward(), and ip_dst_mtu_maybe_forward(). ip4_dst_hoplimit() can use dst_dev_net_rcu().

Affected Software (6)

VendorProductVersion
Linux Linux 4a6ce2b6f2ecabbddcfe47e7cf61dd0f00b10e36 < 13b0e14bfa7e6d506d8d6426b9e6d7feef01ded3
Linux Linux 4a6ce2b6f2ecabbddcfe47e7cf61dd0f00b10e36 < 9f22b5f7f1a32f8bbcc82bf34e34ea63523fcd02
Linux Linux 4a6ce2b6f2ecabbddcfe47e7cf61dd0f00b10e36 < 5d1be493d1110c9e720b4c51a6e587bb2fb4ac12
Linux Linux 4a6ce2b6f2ecabbddcfe47e7cf61dd0f00b10e36 < a805729c0091073d8f0415cfa96c7acd1bc17a48
Linux Linux 4a6ce2b6f2ecabbddcfe47e7cf61dd0f00b10e36 < 99a2ace61b211b0be861b07fbaa062fca4b58879
Linux Linux 4.13

Bug Bounty Relevance

41 / 100
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

7.8 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.19%
Raw Score 0.001930
Percentile 9.1%
Date 2026-10-30

EPSS Trend

2026-10-30
0.00193
2026-10-29
0.00193

Intelligence Sources

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