# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-40074"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-28T11:48:41.202Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-03T10:55:27.348Z"
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-2025-40074"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40074.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40074"
title: "ipv4: start using dst_dev_rcu()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipv4: start using dst_dev_rcu()\n\nChange icmpv4_xrlim_allow(), ip_defrag() to prevent possible UAF.\n\nChange ipmr_prepare_xmit(), ipmr_queue_fwd_xmit(), ip_mr_output(),\nipv4_neigh_lookup() to use lockdep enabled dst_dev_rcu()."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4a6ce2b6f2ecabbddcfe47e7cf61dd0f00b10e36","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"864155c164654110f68a17a63bd0339754790d67"},{"version":"4a6ce2b6f2ecabbddcfe47e7cf61dd0f00b10e36","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e150f273cd8ed34ebc6d03758aad95c12fc58337"},{"version":"4a6ce2b6f2ecabbddcfe47e7cf61dd0f00b10e36","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"684efb2c86c887685f9aa65e1a21b3df6c1f822d"},{"version":"4a6ce2b6f2ecabbddcfe47e7cf61dd0f00b10e36","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"923e0734c386984d45de508528a7a7ad91d791cc"},{"version":"4a6ce2b6f2ecabbddcfe47e7cf61dd0f00b10e36","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6ad8de3cefdb6ffa6708b21c567df0dbf82c43a8"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.13"},{"version":"6.1.189","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.157","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.106","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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