CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-40036

Medium
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

A vulnerability has been identified in the Linux kernel that could lead to a map leak in the fastrpc_put_args function. A failure in the copy_to_user() function could cause an early return without cleaning up the file descriptor list, which has been fixed.

Risk Assessment

The potential map leak could lead to unauthorized access to system resources, posing a threat to the integrity and confidentiality of data within the organization.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Linux kernel to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability and to monitor systems for unauthorized access.

Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: misc: fastrpc: fix possible map leak in fastrpc_put_args copy_to_user() failure would cause an early return without cleaning up the fdlist, which has been updated by the DSP. This could lead to map leak. Fix this by redirecting to

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