# 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-2025-40031"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-28T11:48:13.644Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:41:08.887Z"
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-2025-40031"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40031.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40031"
title: "tee: fix register_shm_helper()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntee: fix register_shm_helper()\n\nIn register_shm_helper(), fix incorrect error handling for a call to\niov_iter_extract_pages(). A case is missing for when\niov_iter_extract_pages() only got some pages and return a number larger\nthan 0, but not the requested amount.\n\nThis fixes a possible NULL pointer dereference following a bad input from\nioctl(TEE_IOC_SHM_REGISTER) where parts of the buffer isn't mapped."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"7bdee41575919773818e525ea19e54eb817770af","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9338093db954918558677a468d32e77041c65167"},{"version":"7bdee41575919773818e525ea19e54eb817770af","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6a7874ab814ce12003c46a92f7afc9b035c8e8e9"},{"version":"7bdee41575919773818e525ea19e54eb817770af","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d5cf5b37064b1699d946e8b7ab4ac7d7d101814c"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.8"},{"version":"6.12.53","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.17.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.17.*"},{"version":"6.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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