Bug 2414523 (CVE-2025-40158) - CVE-2025-40158 kernel: ipv6: use RCU in ip6_output()
Summary: CVE-2025-40158 kernel: ipv6: use RCU in ip6_output()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-40158
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-11-12 11:05 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-11-13 12:34 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-11-12 11:05:24 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ipv6: use RCU in ip6_output()

Use RCU in ip6_output() in order to use dst_dev_rcu() to prevent
possible UAF.

We can remove rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock() pairs
from ip6_finish_output2().
Comment 1 Alexander B 2025-11-13 12:31:46 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025111258-CVE-2025-40158-4c9d@gregkh/T
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