{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-40196 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-40196 is a denial of service 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-2025-40196 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-40196 is a denial of service 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-2025-40196 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-2025-40196/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40196/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-40196","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40196/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-40196","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2025-40196","DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40196","GHSA-rpjc-phpw-vx4c","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2025-40196","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2025-40196","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2025-40196","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-40196","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40196"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A local attacker can trigger a kernel panic in the Linux kernel's quota subsystem during specific writeback operations if panic_on_warn is enabled.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"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\nfs: quota: create dedicated workqueue for quota_release_work\n\nThere is a kernel panic due to WARN_ONCE when panic_on_warn is set.\n\nThis issue occurs when writeback is triggered due to sync call for an\nopened file(ie, writeback reason is WB_REASON_SYNC). When f2fs balance\nis needed at sync path, flush for quota_release_work is triggered.\nBy default quota_release_work is queued to \"events_unbound\" queue which\ndoes not have WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag. During f2fs balance \"writeback\"\nworkqueue tries to flush quota_release_work causing kernel panic due to\nMEM_RECLAIM flag mismatch errors.\n\nThis patch creates dedicated workqueue with WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag\nfor work quota_release_work.\n\n------------[ cut here ]------------\nWARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 14867 at kernel/workqueue.c:3721 check_flush_dependency+0x13c/0x148\nCall trace:\n check_flush_dependency+0x13c/0x148\n __flush_work+0xd0/0x398\n flush_delayed_work+0x44/0x5c\n dquot_writeback_dquots+0x54/0x318\n f2fs_do_quota_sync+0xb8/0x1a8\n f2fs_write_checkpoint+0x3cc/0x99c\n f2fs_gc+0x190/0x750\n f2fs_balance_fs+0x110/0x168\n f2fs_write_single_data_page+0x474/0x7dc\n f2fs_write_data_pages+0x7d0/0xd0c\n do_writepages+0xe0/0x2f4\n __writeback_single_inode+0x44/0x4ac\n writeback_sb_inodes+0x30c/0x538\n wb_writeback+0xf4/0x440\n wb_workfn+0x128/0x5d4\n process_scheduled_works+0x1c4/0x45c\n worker_thread+0x32c/0x3e8\n kthread+0x11c/0x1b0\n ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20\nKernel panic - not syncing: kernel: panic_on_warn set ...","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: quota: create dedicated workqueue for quota_release_work","id":"CVE-2025-40196","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":5,"next":{"headline":"media: mc: Clear minor number before put device","id":"CVE-2025-40197"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"mount: handle NULL values in mnt_ns_release()","id":"CVE-2025-40195"},"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":"2026-10-15","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A local attacker can trigger a kernel panic in the Linux kernel's quota subsystem during specific writeback operations if panic_on_warn is enabled.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40196/"}