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high 7.8

CVE-2025-40027 json

net/9p: fix double req put in p9_fd_cancelled

published 2025-10-28 12 mo ago modified 2026-10-19 20 d ago also EUVD-2025-36440

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 5%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net/9p: fix double req put in p9_fd_cancelled

Syzkaller reports a KASAN issue as below:

general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xfbd59c0000000021: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI KASAN: maybe wild-memory-access in range [0xdead000000000108-0xdead00000000010f] CPU: 0 PID: 5083 Comm: syz-executor.2 Not tainted 6.1.134-syzkaller-00037-g855bd1d7d838 #0 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.12.0-1 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:__list_del include/linux/list.h:114 [inline] RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry include/linux/list.h:137 [inline] RIP: 0010:list_del include/linux/list.h:148 [inline] RIP: 0010:p9_fd_cancelled+0xe9/0x200 net/9p/trans_fd.c:734

Call Trace: <TASK> p9_client_flush+0x351/0x440 net/9p/client.c:614 p9_client_rpc+0xb6b/0xc70 net/9p/client.c:734 p9_client_version net/9p/client.c:920 [inline] p9_client_create+0xb51/0x1240 net/9p/client.c:1027 v9fs_session_init+0x1f0/0x18f0 fs/9p/v9fs.c:408 v9fs_mount+0xba/0xcb0 fs/9p/vfs_super.c:126 legacy_get_tree+0x108/0x220 fs/fs_context.c:632 vfs_get_tree+0x8e/0x300 fs/super.c:1573 do_new_mount fs/namespace.c:3056 [inline] path_mount+0x6a6/0x1e90 fs/namespace.c:3386 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3399 [inline] __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3607 [inline] __se_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3584 [inline] __x64_sys_mount+0x283/0x300 fs/namespace.c:3584 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8

This happens because of a race condition between:

- The 9p client sending an invalid flush request and later cleaning it up; - The 9p client in p9_read_work() canceled all pending requests.

Thread 1 Thread 2 ... p9_client_create() ... p9_fd_create() ... p9_conn_create() ... // start Thread 2 INIT_WORK(&m->rq, p9_read_work); p9_read_work() ... p9_client_rpc() ... ... p9_conn_cancel() ... spin_lock(&m->req_lock); ... p9_fd_cancelled() ... ... spin_unlock(&m->req_lock); // status rewrite p9_client_cb(m->client, req, REQ_STATUS_ERROR) // first remove list_del(&req->req_list); ...

spin_lock(&m->req_lock) ... // second remove list_del(&req->req_list); spin_unlock(&m->req_lock) ...

Commit 74d6a5d56629 ("9p/trans_fd: Fix concurrency del of req_list in p9_fd_cancelled/p9_read_work") fixes a concurrency issue in the 9p filesystem client where the req_list could be deleted simultaneously by both p9_read_work and p9_fd_cancelled functions, but for the case where req->status equals REQ_STATUS_RCVD.

Update the check for req->status in p9_fd_cancelled to skip processing not just received requests, but anything that is not SENT, as whatever changed the state from SENT also removed the request from its list.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.

[updated the check from status == RECV || status == ERROR to status != SENT]

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 5.4.301, 5.10.246, 5.15.195, 6.1.156, 6.6.111, 6.12.52, 6.16.12, 6.17.2, 6.18
  • linux Debian 12 6.1.158-1
  • linux Debian 13 6.12.57-1
  • linux Debian 14 6.17.6-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40027

  • linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-170.180
  • linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-106.106
  • linux Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-7.7
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1100.107
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1050.53
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-1004.4
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1100.109
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1052.55

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40027

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-source Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-38.1
  • kernel-default Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-38.1
  • kernel-kvmsmall Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-38.1
  • kernel-default-base Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-38.1.21.15
  • kernel-rt Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-39.1
  • kernel-source-rt Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-39.1
  • kernel-rt Real Time Module 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.10.61.1
  • kernel-syms-rt Real Time Module 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.10.61.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:20473-1SUSE-SU-2026:20496-1SUSE-SU-2026:20039-1SUSE-SU-2026:20059-1SUSE-SU-2025:4521-1SUSE-SU-2025:4517-1

  • kernel-source-longterm openSUSE Tumbleweed 6.18.16-1.1
  • kernel-rt openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.8.1
  • dtb-aarch64 openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.8.1
  • kernel-64kb openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.8.1
  • kernel-syms openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.8.1
  • kernel-obs-qa openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.8.1
  • kernel-source openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.8.1
  • kernel-default openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.8.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:10301-1openSUSE-SU-2025:20172-1openSUSE-SU-2025:15702-1

  • kernel Azure Linux 3.0 6.6.112.1-2

azure linux advisories AZL-68921

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

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-2025-40027 updated cvss 5.5

kernel: Kernel: Denial of Service in 9p filesystem client via race condition

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • 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 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel
    not 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

0.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 5% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

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