{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-40044 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-40044 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux, published on 28 Oct 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-40044 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-40044 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux, published on 28 Oct 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-40044 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40044/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40044/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-40044","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40044/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-40044","record":{"aliases":["AZL-68843","BELL-CVE-2025-40044","DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40044","GHSA-4j58-87g3-fv33","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2025-40044","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2025-40044","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-13-CVE-2025-40044","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2025-40044","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-40044","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40044"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service","data_read"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel UDF","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A crafted UDF filesystem image triggers an out-of-bounds read leading to a use-after-free in the Linux kernel, potentially causing crashes or memory disclosure.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"use_after_free"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfs: udf: fix OOB read in lengthAllocDescs handling\n\nWhen parsing Allocation Extent Descriptor, lengthAllocDescs comes from\non-disk data and must be validated against the block size. Crafted or\ncorrupted images may set lengthAllocDescs so that the total descriptor\nlength (sizeof(allocExtDesc) + lengthAllocDescs) exceeds the buffer,\nleading udf_update_tag() to call crc_itu_t() on out-of-bounds memory and\ntrigger a KASAN use-after-free read.\n\nBUG: KASAN: use-after-free in crc_itu_t+0x1d5/0x2b0 lib/crc-itu-t.c:60\nRead of size 1 at addr ffff888041e7d000 by task syz-executor317/5309\n\nCPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5309 Comm: syz-executor317 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc4-syzkaller-00261-g850925a8133c #0\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]\n dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:120\n print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:377 [inline]\n print_report+0x169/0x550 mm/kasan/report.c:488\n kasan_report+0x143/0x180 mm/kasan/report.c:601\n crc_itu_t+0x1d5/0x2b0 lib/crc-itu-t.c:60\n udf_update_tag+0x70/0x6a0 fs/udf/misc.c:261\n udf_write_aext+0x4d8/0x7b0 fs/udf/inode.c:2179\n extent_trunc+0x2f7/0x4a0 fs/udf/truncate.c:46\n udf_truncate_tail_extent+0x527/0x7e0 fs/udf/truncate.c:106\n udf_release_file+0xc1/0x120 fs/udf/file.c:185\n __fput+0x23f/0x880 fs/file_table.c:431\n task_work_run+0x24f/0x310 kernel/task_work.c:239\n exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:43 [inline]\n do_exit+0xa2f/0x28e0 kernel/exit.c:939\n do_group_exit+0x207/0x2c0 kernel/exit.c:1088\n __do_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1099 [inline]\n __se_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1097 [inline]\n __x64_sys_exit_group+0x3f/0x40 kernel/exit.c:1097\n x64_sys_call+0x2634/0x2640 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:232\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nValidate the computed total length against epos-\u003ebh-\u003eb_size.\n\nFound by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"fs: udf: fix OOB read in lengthAllocDescs handling","id":"CVE-2025-40044","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"use_after_free","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":8,"next":{"headline":"ASoC: codecs: wcd937x: set the comp soundwire port correctly","id":"CVE-2025-40045"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"net: nfc: nci: Add parameter validation for packet data","id":"CVE-2025-40043"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-10-28","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-15","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A crafted UDF filesystem image triggers an out-of-bounds read leading to a use-after-free in the Linux kernel, potentially causing crashes or memory disclosure.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40044/"}