# 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-2025-40071"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-28T11:48:39.417Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T16:01:21.118Z"
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-2025-40071"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40071.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40071"
title: "tty: n_gsm: Don't block input queue by waiting MSC"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntty: n_gsm: Don't block input queue by waiting MSC\n\nCurrently gsm_queue() processes incoming frames and when opening\na DLC channel it calls gsm_dlci_open() which calls gsm_modem_update().\nIf basic mode is used it calls gsm_modem_upd_via_msc() and it\ncannot block the input queue by waiting the response to come\ninto the same input queue.\n\nInstead allow sending Modem Status Command without waiting for remote\nend to respond. Define a new function gsm_modem_send_initial_msc()\nfor this purpose. As MSC is only valid for basic encoding, it does\nnot do anything for advanced or when convergence layer type 2 is used."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"48473802506d2d6151f59e0e764932b33b53cb3b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c36785f9de03df56ff9b8eca30fa681a12b2310d"},{"version":"48473802506d2d6151f59e0e764932b33b53cb3b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5416e89b81b00443cb03c88df8da097ae091a141"},{"version":"48473802506d2d6151f59e0e764932b33b53cb3b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c5a2791a7f11939f05f95c01f0aec0c55bbf28d5"},{"version":"48473802506d2d6151f59e0e764932b33b53cb3b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3cf0b3c243e56bc43be560617416c1d9f301f44c"},{"version":"920e849b7d23ced84c9d11e11e2449e34973cfb8","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"e83b4e1540469babeffcfd44a605cf8a61542598","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.15.54","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"},{"version":"5.17.6","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.18"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.18"},{"version":"6.6.112","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"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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