# 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-2025-40053"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-28T11:48:28.444Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T22:02:37.095Z"
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-2025-40053"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40053.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40053"
title: "net: dlink: handle copy_thresh allocation failure"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: dlink: handle copy_thresh allocation failure\n\nThe driver did not handle failure of `netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align()`.\nIf the allocation failed, dereferencing `skb-\u003eprotocol` could lead to\na NULL pointer dereference.\n\nThis patch tries to allocate `skb`. If the allocation fails, it falls\nback to the normal path.\n\nTested-on: D-Link DGE-550T Rev-A3"
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