CVE-2025-40279: linux
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2025-40279 is a vulnerability in linux with no CVSS score yet. EPSS estimates a 0.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 8.8% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 41 · Related 38Timeline
- 06-12-2025PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 11-05-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: sched: act_connmark: initialize struct tc_ife to fix kernel leak In tcf_connmark_dump(), the variable 'opt' was partially initialized using a designatied initializer. While the padding bytes are reamined uninitialized. nla_put() copies the entire structure into a netlink message, these uninitialized bytes leaked to userspace. Initialize the structure with memset before assigning its fields to ensure all members and padding are cleared prior to beign copied.
CVSS metrics
Risk metrics not yet published.
EPSS trend
Probability
0.20%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
9%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 0.20% on 20-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeNo weakness data has been published for this record.
Affected systems
Ubuntu153 products
- linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.15.0-173.183 | < 6.8.0-106.106 | < 6.17.0-14.14
- linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.15.0-1103.110 | < 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< 6.1.159-1 | < 6.12.63-1 | < 6.17.9-1
Linux1 product
- linux≥ 22a5dc0e5e3e8fef804230cd73ed7b0afd4c7bae, < 218b67c8c8246d47a2a7910eae80abe4861fe2b7 | ≥ 22a5dc0e5e3e8fef804230cd73ed7b0afd4c7bae, < 73cc56c608c209d3d666cc571293b090a471da70 | ≥ 22a5dc0e5e3e8fef804230cd73ed7b0afd4c7bae, < 31e4aa93e2e5b5647fc235b0f6ee329646878f9e | ≥ 22a5dc0e5e3e8fef804230cd73ed7b0afd4c7bae, < 51cb05d4fd632596816ba44e882e84db9fb28a7e | ≥ 22a5dc0e5e3e8fef804230cd73ed7b0afd4c7bae, < 25837889ec062f2b7618142cd80253dff3da5343 | ≥ 22a5dc0e5e3e8fef804230cd73ed7b0afd4c7bae, < 62b656e43eaeae445a39cd8021a4f47065af4389 | 4.0
3 vendors · 155 products