CVE-2025-40010 json
afs: Fix potential null pointer dereference in afs_put_server
published 2025-10-20 12 mo ago modified 2026-10-19 20 d ago also EUVD-2025-35070
- cvss
- —
- not scored
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.2%
- EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 15%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
afs: Fix potential null pointer dereference in afs_put_server
afs_put_server() accessed server->debug_id before the NULL check, which could lead to a null pointer dereference. Move the debug_id assignment, ensuring we never dereference a NULL server pointer.
Patch / fix
- Linux Linux 6.1.155, 6.6.109, 6.12.50, 6.16.10, 6.17
- linux Debian 12 6.1.158-1
- linux Debian 13 6.12.57-1
- linux Debian 14 6.16.10-1
debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40010
- linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-106.106
- linux Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-6.6
- linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1050.53
- linux-aws Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-1003.3
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1052.55
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-1003.3
- linux-gke Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1048.53
- linux-ibm Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1049.49
ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40010
Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0
- kernel-rt Real Time Module 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.10.58.1
- kernel-syms-rt Real Time Module 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.10.58.1
- kernel-rt_debug Real Time Module 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.10.58.1
- kernel-source-rt Real Time Module 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.10.58.1
- kernel-rt Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-38.1
- kernel-source-rt Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-38.1
- kernel-rt Real Time Module 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.7.22.1
- kernel-syms-rt Real Time Module 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.7.22.1
suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:4301-1SUSE-SU-2025:21052-1SUSE-SU-2025:21064-1SUSE-SU-2025:4141-1SUSE-SU-2025:4140-1SUSE-SU-2025:4132-1
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b8381f3c405b864a814d747e526e078c3ef4bc2 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/cab278cead49a547ac84c3e185f446f381303eae commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/a13dbc5e20c7284b82afe6f08debdecf51d2ca04 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/41782c44bb8431c43043129ae42f2ba614938479 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/9158c6bb245113d4966df9b2ba602197a379412e commit
Vendor advisories
What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.
red hat product security vex CVE-2025-40010 updated cvss 5.5
kernel: afs: Fix potential null pointer dereference in afs_put_server
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernelaffected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 morenot affected: vulnerable code not present
Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf
Exploit prediction
0.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 15% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
Affected products
- Linux Linux
Classification
- Technology feeds
References
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/7b8381f3c405b864a814d747e526e078c3ef4bc2
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/cab278cead49a547ac84c3e185f446f381303eae
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/a13dbc5e20c7284b82afe6f08debdecf51d2ca04
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/41782c44bb8431c43043129ae42f2ba614938479
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/9158c6bb245113d4966df9b2ba602197a379412e
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2025-40010
- NVD CVE-2025-40010
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