CVE-2025-40315 json
usb: gadget: f_fs: Fix epfile null pointer access after ep enable.
published 2025-12-08 11 mo ago modified 2026-10-14 25 d ago also EUVD-2025-201630
- 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 12%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: gadget: f_fs: Fix epfile null pointer access after ep enable.
A race condition occurs when ffs_func_eps_enable() runs concurrently with ffs_data_reset(). The ffs_data_clear() called in ffs_data_reset() sets ffs->epfiles to NULL before resetting ffs->eps_count to 0, leading to a NULL pointer dereference when accessing epfile->ep in ffs_func_eps_enable() after successful usb_ep_enable().
The ffs->epfiles pointer is set to NULL in both ffs_data_clear() and ffs_data_close() functions, and its modification is protected by the spinlock ffs->eps_lock. And the whole ffs_func_eps_enable() function is also protected by ffs->eps_lock.
Thus, add NULL pointer handling for ffs->epfiles in the ffs_func_eps_enable() function to fix issues
Patch / fix
- Linux Linux 4.15, 4.20, 5.4.302, 5.10.247, 5.15.197, 5.17, 6.1.159, 6.6.117, 6.12.58, 6.17.8, 6.18
- linux Debian 12 6.1.159-1
- linux Debian 13 6.12.63-1
- linux Debian 14 6.17.8-1
debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40315
- linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-173.183
- linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-106.106
- linux Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-14.14
- linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1103.110
- linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1050.53
- linux-aws Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-1007.7
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1103.112
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1052.55
ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40315
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 Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-40.1
- kernel-source-rt Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-40.1
- kernel-source Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-39.1
- kernel-default Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-39.1
- kernel-kvmsmall Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-39.1
- kernel-default-base Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-39.1.21.16
- kernel-rt Linux Micro 6.2 6.12.0-160000.9.1
- kernel-64kb SLES 16.0, Linux Micro 6.2, SLES for SAP applications 16.0 6.12.0-160000.9.1
suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:20845-1SUSE-SU-2026:20876-1SUSE-SU-2026:20477-1SUSE-SU-2026:20498-1SUSE-SU-2026:20207-1SUSE-SU-2026:20220-1
- kernel-rt openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.9.1
- dtb-aarch64 openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.9.1
- kernel-64kb openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.9.1
- kernel-syms openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.9.1
- kernel-azure openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.9.1
- kernel-obs-qa openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.9.1
- kernel-source openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.9.1
- kernel-default openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.9.1
opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:20145-1
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b00d2572c16e8e59e979960d3383c2ae9cebd195 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c0dbd240be3f87cac321b14e17979b7e9cb6a8f commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ec40fba7357df2d36f4c2e2f3b9b1a4fba0a272 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/c53e90563bc148e4e0ad09fe130ba2246d426ea6 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/fc1141a530dfc91f0ee19b7f422a2d24829584bc commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d62b808d5c68a931ad0849a00a5e3be3dd7e0019 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/30880e9df27332403dd638a82c27921134b3630b commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/cfd6f1a7b42f62523c96d9703ef32b0dbc495ba4 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-2025-40315 updated
kernel: usb: gadget: f_fs: Fix epfile null pointer access after ep enable
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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 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernelnot 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
0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 12% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
Affected products
- Linux Linux
Classification
- Technology feeds
References
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/b00d2572c16e8e59e979960d3383c2ae9cebd195
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/1c0dbd240be3f87cac321b14e17979b7e9cb6a8f
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/9ec40fba7357df2d36f4c2e2f3b9b1a4fba0a272
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/c53e90563bc148e4e0ad09fe130ba2246d426ea6
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/fc1141a530dfc91f0ee19b7f422a2d24829584bc
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/d62b808d5c68a931ad0849a00a5e3be3dd7e0019
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/30880e9df27332403dd638a82c27921134b3630b
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/cfd6f1a7b42f62523c96d9703ef32b0dbc495ba4
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2025-40315
- NVD CVE-2025-40315
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