CVE-2025-40056 json
vhost: vringh: Fix copy_to_iter return value check
published 2025-10-28 12 mo ago modified 2026-10-19 20 d ago also EUVD-2025-36472
- 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 11%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vhost: vringh: Fix copy_to_iter return value check
The return value of copy_to_iter can't be negative, check whether the copied length is equal to the requested length instead of checking for negative values.
Patch / fix
- Linux Linux 6.1.156, 6.6.112, 6.12.53, 6.17.3, 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-2025-40056
- linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-106.106
- linux Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-14.14
- linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1050.53
- linux-aws Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-1007.7
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1052.55
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-1007.7
- 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-2025-40056
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 6.2 6.12.0-160000.7.1
- kernel-64kb SLES 16.0, Linux Micro 6.2, SLES for SAP applications 16.0 6.12.0-160000.7.1
- kernel-source SLES 16.0, Linux Micro 6.2, SLES for SAP applications 16.0 6.12.0-160000.7.1
- kernel-default SLES 16.0, SLE High Availability Extension 16.0, Linux Micro 6.2 +1 more 6.12.0-160000.7.1
suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:4301-1SUSE-SU-2025:21080-1SUSE-SU-2025:21147-1SUSE-SU-2025:21180-1SUSE-SU-2026:20561-1SUSE-SU-2025:21052-1
- kernel-source-longterm openSUSE Tumbleweed 6.18.16-1.1
- kernel-rt openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.7.1
- dtb-aarch64 openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.7.1
- kernel-64kb openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.7.1
- kernel-syms openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.7.1
- kernel-obs-qa openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.7.1
- kernel-source openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.7.1
- kernel-default openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.7.1
opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:10301-1openSUSE-SU-2025:20091-1openSUSE-SU-2025:15702-1
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/bd71e7e0a612740e4de5524880c7cd40293af5f7 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/781226e11d5bdea0d69c7b5aa3cda874093c73b8 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3a950d236e98440c07405ba597b11bce56a8050 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/68aac2b335d474b938d154b9c95cbc58838cb2ce commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/439263376c2c4e126cac0d07e4987568de4eaba5 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-2025-40056 updated cvss 4.7
kernel: Linux kernel: Data corruption and denial of service in vhost/vringh due to improper copy_to_iter return value check
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernelaffected: workaround, no fix available
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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
0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 11% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
Affected products
- Linux Linux
Classification
- Technology feeds
References
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/bd71e7e0a612740e4de5524880c7cd40293af5f7
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/781226e11d5bdea0d69c7b5aa3cda874093c73b8
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/b3a950d236e98440c07405ba597b11bce56a8050
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/68aac2b335d474b938d154b9c95cbc58838cb2ce
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/439263376c2c4e126cac0d07e4987568de4eaba5
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2025-40056
- NVD CVE-2025-40056
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