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CVE-2025-40056

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vhost: vringh: Fix copy_to_iter return value check The return value of copy_to_iter can't be negative, check whether the copied length is equal to the requested length instead of checking for negative values.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bd71e7e0a612740e4de5524880c7cd40293af5f7

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3a950d236e98440c07405ba597b11bce56a8050

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/781226e11d5bdea0d69c7b5aa3cda874093c73b8

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/68aac2b335d474b938d154b9c95cbc58838cb2ce

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/439263376c2c4e126cac0d07e4987568de4eaba5

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-10-28

Updated: 2026-04-15

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00018

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