{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-40125 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-40125 is a vulnerability in Linux, published on 12 Nov 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-2025-40125 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-40125 is a vulnerability in Linux, published on 12 Nov 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-2025-40125 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-2025-40125/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40125/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-40125","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40125/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-40125","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2025-40125","DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40125","GHSA-8mqf-xr44-qqq9","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-40125","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40125"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"high_privilege","summary":"A local attacker with high privileges can trigger a kernel warning and potential denial of service by manipulating block device queue settings after a sysfs registration failure.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nblk-mq: check kobject state_in_sysfs before deleting in blk_mq_unregister_hctx\n\nIn __blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues() the return value of\nblk_mq_sysfs_register_hctxs() is not checked. If sysfs creation for hctx\nfails, later changing the number of hw_queues or removing disk will\ntrigger the following warning:\n\n  kernfs: can not remove 'nr_tags', no directory\n  WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 637 at fs/kernfs/dir.c:1707 kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x13f/0x160\n  Call Trace:\n   remove_files.isra.1+0x38/0xb0\n   sysfs_remove_group+0x4d/0x100\n   sysfs_remove_groups+0x31/0x60\n   __kobject_del+0x23/0xf0\n   kobject_del+0x17/0x40\n   blk_mq_unregister_hctx+0x5d/0x80\n   blk_mq_sysfs_unregister_hctxs+0x94/0xd0\n   blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues+0x124/0x760\n   nullb_update_nr_hw_queues+0x71/0xf0 [null_blk]\n   nullb_device_submit_queues_store+0x92/0x120 [null_blk]\n\nkobjct_del() was called unconditionally even if sysfs creation failed.\nFix it by checkig the kobject creation statusbefore deleting it.","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":"blk-mq: check kobject state_in_sysfs before deleting in blk_mq_unregister_hctx","id":"CVE-2025-40125","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":8,"next":{"headline":"sparc: fix accurate exception reporting in copy_{from_to}_user for UltraSPARC","id":"CVE-2025-40126"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"sparc: fix accurate exception reporting in copy_{from_to}_user for UltraSPARC III","id":"CVE-2025-40124"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-11-12","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A local attacker with high privileges can trigger a kernel warning and potential denial of service by manipulating block device queue settings after a sysfs registration failure.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40125/"}