{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-40172 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-40172 is a high-severity 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-2025-40172 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-40172 is a high-severity 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-2025-40172 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-2025-40172/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40172/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-40172","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40172/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-40172","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2025-40172","DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40172","GHSA-q638-pmrf-wwcc","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-13-CVE-2025-40172","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-40172","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40172"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel driver","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A local attacker can trigger a general protection fault and crash the system by sending a zero-length DMA transfer request to the QAIC accelerator driver.","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\naccel/qaic: Treat remaining == 0 as error in find_and_map_user_pages()\n\nCurrently, if find_and_map_user_pages() takes a DMA xfer request from the\nuser with a length field set to 0, or in a rare case, the host receives\nQAIC_TRANS_DMA_XFER_CONT from the device where resources-\u003exferred_dma_size\nis equal to the requested transaction size, the function will return 0\nbefore allocating an sgt or setting the fields of the dma_xfer struct.\nIn that case, encode_addr_size_pairs() will try to access the sgt which\nwill lead to a general protection fault.\n\nReturn an EINVAL in case the user provides a zero-sized ALP, or the device\nrequests continuation after all of the bytes have been transferred.","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":"accel/qaic: Treat remaining == 0 as error in find_and_map_user_pages()","id":"CVE-2025-40172","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":4,"next":{"headline":"net/ip6_tunnel: Prevent perpetual tunnel growth","id":"CVE-2025-40173"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"nvmet-fc: move lsop put work to nvmet_fc_ls_req_op","id":"CVE-2025-40171"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-11-12","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 local attacker can trigger a general protection fault and crash the system by sending a zero-length DMA transfer request to the QAIC accelerator driver.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40172/"}