CVE-2025-40187

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
12/11/2025
Last modified:
12/11/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> net/sctp: fix a null dereference in sctp_disposition sctp_sf_do_5_1D_ce()<br /> <br /> If new_asoc-&gt;peer.adaptation_ind=0 and sctp_ulpevent_make_authkey=0<br /> and sctp_ulpevent_make_authkey() returns 0, then the variable<br /> ai_ev remains zero and the zero will be dereferenced<br /> in the sctp_ulpevent_free() function.

Impact