{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-40092 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-40092 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux, published on 30 Oct 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-40092 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-40092 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux, published on 30 Oct 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-40092 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-2025-40092/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40092/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-40092","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40092/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-40092","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2025-40092","DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40092","GHSA-68rx-wr32-vgh2","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2025-40092","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2025-40092","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-40092","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40092"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel USB gadget","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel USB NCM gadget driver allows local attackers to cause a system crash via bind/unbind cycles.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"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:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nusb: gadget: f_ncm: Refactor bind path to use __free()\n\nAfter an bind/unbind cycle, the ncm-\u003enotify_req is left stale. If a\nsubsequent bind fails, the unified error label attempts to free this\nstale request, leading to a NULL pointer dereference when accessing\nep-\u003eops-\u003efree_request.\n\nRefactor the error handling in the bind path to use the __free()\nautomatic cleanup mechanism.\n\nUnable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000020\nCall trace:\n usb_ep_free_request+0x2c/0xec\n ncm_bind+0x39c/0x3dc\n usb_add_function+0xcc/0x1f0\n configfs_composite_bind+0x468/0x588\n gadget_bind_driver+0x104/0x270\n really_probe+0x190/0x374\n __driver_probe_device+0xa0/0x12c\n driver_probe_device+0x3c/0x218\n __device_attach_driver+0x14c/0x188\n bus_for_each_drv+0x10c/0x168\n __device_attach+0xfc/0x198\n device_initial_probe+0x14/0x24\n bus_probe_device+0x94/0x11c\n device_add+0x268/0x48c\n usb_add_gadget+0x198/0x28c\n dwc3_gadget_init+0x700/0x858\n __dwc3_set_mode+0x3cc/0x664\n process_scheduled_works+0x1d8/0x488\n worker_thread+0x244/0x334\n kthread+0x114/0x1bc\n ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20","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":"usb: gadget: f_ncm: Refactor bind path to use __free()","id":"CVE-2025-40092","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":6,"next":{"headline":"usb: gadget: f_ecm: Refactor bind path to use __free()","id":"CVE-2025-40093"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"ixgbe: fix too early devlink_free() in ixgbe_remove()","id":"CVE-2025-40091"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-10-30","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":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-08-05","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel USB NCM gadget driver allows local attackers to cause a system crash via bind/unbind cycles.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40092/"}