CVE-2025-40187
CVE-2025-40187CVE-2025-40187
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/sctp: fix a null dereference in sctp_disposition sctp_sf_do_5_1D_ce()
If new_asoc->peer.adaptation_ind=0 and sctp_ulpevent_make_authkey=0
and sctp_ulpevent_make_authkey() returns 0, then the variable
ai_ev remains zero and the zero will be dereferenced
in the sctp_ulpevent_free() function.
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.5 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| Last modified | 2026-07-30 |