CVE-2025-40240

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
04/12/2025
Last modified:
04/12/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> sctp: avoid NULL dereference when chunk data buffer is missing<br /> <br /> chunk-&gt;skb pointer is dereferenced in the if-block where it&amp;#39;s supposed<br /> to be NULL only.<br /> <br /> chunk-&gt;skb can only be NULL if chunk-&gt;head_skb is not. Check for frag_list<br /> instead and do it just before replacing chunk-&gt;skb. We&amp;#39;re sure that<br /> otherwise chunk-&gt;skb is non-NULL because of outer if() condition.

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