# 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-2025-40081"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-28T11:48:45.392Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T22:02:37.490Z"
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-2025-40081"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40081.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40081"
title: "perf: arm_spe: Prevent overflow in PERF_IDX2OFF()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nperf: arm_spe: Prevent overflow in PERF_IDX2OFF()\n\nCast nr_pages to unsigned long to avoid overflow when handling large\nAUX buffer sizes (\u003e= 2 GiB)."
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