# CVE-2025-40057: ptp: Add a upper bound on max_vclocks

> A local attacker with high privileges can trigger a kernel warning and potential denial of service by setting an excessively large value for max_vclocks in the PTP subsystem.

- **Severity:** Not scored
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 28 Oct 2025
- **Updated:** 21 Oct 2026
- **Also known as:** AZL-68930, BELL-CVE-2025-40057, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40057, GHSA-29fx-85hc-pfpw, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2025-40057, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2025-40057, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-40057, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40057

## What is CVE-2025-40057?

CVE-2025-40057 is a denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 28 Oct 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ptp: Add a upper bound on max_vclocks

syzbot reported WARNING in max_vclocks_store.

This occurs when the argument max is too large for kcalloc to handle.

Extend the guard to guard against values that are too large for
kcalloc

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-40057?


## How do I fix CVE-2025-40057?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2025-40057 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-40057 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-40057 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-40057 is a denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 28 Oct 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-40057 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40057/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40057/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40057
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-40057
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-40057

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40057/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.