CVE-2025-40080

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
28/10/2025
Last modified:
30/10/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> nbd: restrict sockets to TCP and UDP<br /> <br /> Recently, syzbot started to abuse NBD with all kinds of sockets.<br /> <br /> Commit cf1b2326b734 ("nbd: verify socket is supported during setup")<br /> made sure the socket supported a shutdown() method.<br /> <br /> Explicitely accept TCP and UNIX stream sockets.

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