{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-40206 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-40206 is a high-severity 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-2025-40206 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-40206 is a high-severity 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-2025-40206 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-2025-40206/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40206/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-40206","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40206/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-40206","record":{"aliases":["AZL-70100","BELL-CVE-2025-40206","DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40206","GHSA-3xw5-26jc-pqjh","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2025-40206","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2025-40206","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-13-CVE-2025-40206","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2025-40206","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-40206","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40206"],"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":"low_privilege","summary":"A local attacker can crash the Linux kernel by referencing a synproxy object in the OUTPUT hook, causing infinite recursion and a stack overflow.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"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\nnetfilter: nft_objref: validate objref and objrefmap expressions\n\nReferencing a synproxy stateful object from OUTPUT hook causes kernel\ncrash due to infinite recursive calls:\n\nBUG: TASK stack guard page was hit at 000000008bda5b8c (stack is 000000003ab1c4a5..00000000494d8b12)\n[...]\nCall Trace:\n __find_rr_leaf+0x99/0x230\n fib6_table_lookup+0x13b/0x2d0\n ip6_pol_route+0xa4/0x400\n fib6_rule_lookup+0x156/0x240\n ip6_route_output_flags+0xc6/0x150\n __nf_ip6_route+0x23/0x50\n synproxy_send_tcp_ipv6+0x106/0x200\n synproxy_send_client_synack_ipv6+0x1aa/0x1f0\n nft_synproxy_do_eval+0x263/0x310\n nft_do_chain+0x5a8/0x5f0 [nf_tables\n nft_do_chain_inet+0x98/0x110\n nf_hook_slow+0x43/0xc0\n __ip6_local_out+0xf0/0x170\n ip6_local_out+0x17/0x70\n synproxy_send_tcp_ipv6+0x1a2/0x200\n synproxy_send_client_synack_ipv6+0x1aa/0x1f0\n[...]\n\nImplement objref and objrefmap expression validate functions.\n\nCurrently, only NFT_OBJECT_SYNPROXY object type requires validation.\nThis will also handle a jump to a chain using a synproxy object from the\nOUTPUT hook.\n\nNow when trying to reference a synproxy object in the OUTPUT hook, nft\nwill produce the following error:\n\nsynproxy_crash.nft: Error: Could not process rule: Operation not supported\n  synproxy name mysynproxy\n  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^","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":"netfilter: nft_objref: validate objref and objrefmap expressions","id":"CVE-2025-40206","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: v4l2-subdev: Fix alloc failure check in v4l2_subdev_call_state_try()","id":"CVE-2025-40207"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"btrfs: avoid potential out-of-bounds in btrfs_encode_fh()","id":"CVE-2025-40205"},"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":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-15","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A local attacker can crash the Linux kernel by referencing a synproxy object in the OUTPUT hook, causing infinite recursion and a stack overflow.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40206/"}