# 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-2025-40089"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-30T09:47:57.990Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:42:18.011Z"
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-2025-40089"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40089.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40089"
title: "cxl/features: Add check for no entries in cxl_feature_info"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncxl/features: Add check for no entries in cxl_feature_info\n\ncxl EDAC calls cxl_feature_info() to get the feature information and\nif the hardware has no Features support, cxlfs may be passed in as\nNULL.\n\n[   51.957498] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008\n[   51.965571] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode\n[   51.971559] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page\n[   51.977542] PGD 17e4f6067 P4D 0\n[   51.981384] Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI\n[   51.986300] CPU: 49 UID: 0 PID: 3782 Comm: systemd-udevd Not tainted 6.17.0dj\ntest+ #64 PREEMPT(voluntary)\n[   51.997355] Hardware name: \u003cremoved\u003e\n[   52.009790] RIP: 0010:cxl_feature_info+0xa/0x80 [cxl_core]\n\nAdd a check for cxlfs before dereferencing it and return -EOPNOTSUPP if\nthere is no cxlfs created due to no hardware support."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"eb5dfcb9e36d0e46089fec777d911313c1876fa3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b8a69e3b1a460bf5d96dd53cbd121aa2cd346886"},{"version":"eb5dfcb9e36d0e46089fec777d911313c1876fa3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a375246fcf2bbdaeb1df7fa7ee5a8b884a89085e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.15"},{"version":"6.17.5","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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