CVE-2025-40140

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RAs are link-local and non-routable, so Adjacent rather than Network; the vector is the network stack, not the USB bus.\nAC:L - The attacker controls both sides of the race \u2014 they generate the TX load that guarantees an in-flight URB and drive rx_mode changes at an arbitrary rate \u2014 and the attempt is freely repeatable. The window between `urb->hcpriv = NULL` and `urb->complete()` in `__usb_hcd_giveback_urb()` is widened further by bulk giveback being deferred to a BH workqueue.\nPR:N - IPv6 Router Advertisement processing is unauthenticated by design and `accept_ra=1` is the default on non-forwarding hosts, so no credentials of any kind are needed on the adjacent path. Even the purely local path requires only an unprivileged `setsockopt(IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP)` loop with no capabilities.\nUI:N - The kernel processes Router Advertisements and performs the resulting solicited-node multicast joins automatically in softirq on packet receive. No victim action is required at any point.\nS:U - The corruption is confined to kernel memory of the affected host, within the same security authority. No VM, IOMMU, or sandbox boundary is crossed.\nC:H - The use-after-free leaves the HCD DMA-ing from a freed sk_buff data buffer and transmitting its contents onto the attacker's network segment, directly leaking reallocated kernel heap memory. Per guidance, a UAF also generically warrants C:H because it gives the attacker control over freed-object contents.\nI:H - The double free of an sk_buff corrupts the `skbuff_head_cache` slab freelist, a well-known heap-shaping and arbitrary-write primitive, and the still-queued URB writes/reads memory that can be reallocated to other kernel users mid-transfer.\nA:H - The reported `WARN_ONCE(\"URB submitted while active\")` is a kernel oops and a full panic under `panic_on_warn=1`, which is set in many hardened and production configurations. 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{"created": "2025-11-12T22:12:52.000063+00:00", "updated": "2025-11-12T22:12:52.000090+00:00", "vendors": ["linux", "linux$PRODUCT$linux_kernel"]}