CVE-2025-40221: media: pci: mg4b: fix uninitialized iio scan data

Deferred
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2025-40221DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40221
Published 04-12-2025Last modified 11-05-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-40221 is a vulnerability in linux with no CVSS score yet. EPSS estimates a 0.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Insufficient evidence

No CVSS vector published; no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
Not scored
010
No CVSS score recorded
EPSS score
0.18%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 20 · Related 20

Timeline

  1. 04-12-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: pci: mg4b: fix uninitialized iio scan data Fix potential leak of uninitialized stack data to userspace by ensuring that the `scan` structure is zeroed before use.

CVSS metrics

Risk metrics not yet published.

EPSS trend

Probability

0.18%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

8%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.18% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

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CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu127 products
  • linux< 6.8.0-106.106 | < 6.17.0-14.14
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 6.8.0-1050.53 | < 6.17.0-1007.7
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.12.57-1 | < 6.17.6-1
Linux1 product
  • linux≥ 0ab13674a9bd10514486cf1670d71dbd8afec421, < b7f82da7f86479cb6479a76ebe213ece7c77398f | ≥ 0ab13674a9bd10514486cf1670d71dbd8afec421, < b792eba44494b4e6ab5006013335f9819f303b8b | ≥ 0ab13674a9bd10514486cf1670d71dbd8afec421, < c0d3f6969bb4d72476cfe7ea9263831f1c283704 | 6.7

3 vendors · 129 products

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