Bug 2419953 (CVE-2025-40291) - CVE-2025-40291 kernel: io_uring: fix regbuf vector size truncation
Summary: CVE-2025-40291 kernel: io_uring: fix regbuf vector size truncation
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-40291
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-12-08 07:11 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-12-09 12:13 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-08 07:11:27 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

io_uring: fix regbuf vector size truncation

There is a report of io_estimate_bvec_size() truncating the calculated
number of segments that leads to corruption issues. Check it doesn't
overflow "int"s used later. Rough but simple, can be improved on top.


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