# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-39940"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-04T07:31:03.309Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:37:37.824Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39940"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39940.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39940"
title: "dm-stripe: fix a possible integer overflow"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndm-stripe: fix a possible integer overflow\n\nThere's a possible integer overflow in stripe_io_hints if we have too\nlarge chunk size. Test if the overflow happened, and if it did, don't set\nlimits-\u003eio_min and limits-\u003eio_opt;"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"40bea431274c247425e7f5970d796ff7b37a2b22","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"891ab8c6954199e4f36029b49df86c8b1d6b0b2f"},{"version":"40bea431274c247425e7f5970d796ff7b37a2b22","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f8f64254bca5ae58f3b679441962bda4c409f659"},{"version":"40bea431274c247425e7f5970d796ff7b37a2b22","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ee27658c239b27721397f3e4eb16370b5cce596e"},{"version":"40bea431274c247425e7f5970d796ff7b37a2b22","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1071d560afb4c245c2076494226df47db5a35708"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.31","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.31"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.49","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.16.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.16.*"},{"version":"6.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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