# 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-2025-40092"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-30T09:47:59.910Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:07:43.366Z"
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-2025-40092"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40092.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40092"
title: "usb: gadget: f_ncm: Refactor bind path to use __free()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nusb: gadget: f_ncm: Refactor bind path to use __free()\n\nAfter an bind/unbind cycle, the ncm-\u003enotify_req is left stale. If a\nsubsequent bind fails, the unified error label attempts to free this\nstale request, leading to a NULL pointer dereference when accessing\nep-\u003eops-\u003efree_request.\n\nRefactor the error handling in the bind path to use the __free()\nautomatic cleanup mechanism.\n\nUnable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000020\nCall trace:\n usb_ep_free_request+0x2c/0xec\n ncm_bind+0x39c/0x3dc\n usb_add_function+0xcc/0x1f0\n configfs_composite_bind+0x468/0x588\n gadget_bind_driver+0x104/0x270\n really_probe+0x190/0x374\n __driver_probe_device+0xa0/0x12c\n driver_probe_device+0x3c/0x218\n __device_attach_driver+0x14c/0x188\n bus_for_each_drv+0x10c/0x168\n __device_attach+0xfc/0x198\n device_initial_probe+0x14/0x24\n bus_probe_device+0x94/0x11c\n device_add+0x268/0x48c\n usb_add_gadget+0x198/0x28c\n dwc3_gadget_init+0x700/0x858\n __dwc3_set_mode+0x3cc/0x664\n process_scheduled_works+0x1d8/0x488\n worker_thread+0x244/0x334\n kthread+0x114/0x1bc\n ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"9f6ce4240a2bf456402c15c06768059e5973f28c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"185193a4714aa9c78437a7a1858fbe5771f0f45c"},{"version":"9f6ce4240a2bf456402c15c06768059e5973f28c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f37de8dec6a4c379b4b8486003a1de00ff8cff3b"},{"version":"9f6ce4240a2bf456402c15c06768059e5973f28c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1cde4516295a030cb8ab4c93114ca3b6c3c6a1e2"},{"version":"9f6ce4240a2bf456402c15c06768059e5973f28c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d3fe7143928d8dfa2ec7bac9f906b48bc75b98ee"},{"version":"9f6ce4240a2bf456402c15c06768059e5973f28c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ed78f4d6079d872432b1ed54f155ef61965d3137"},{"version":"9f6ce4240a2bf456402c15c06768059e5973f28c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"75a5b8d4ddd4eb6b16cb0b475d14ff4ae64295ef"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.38","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.38"},{"version":"5.15.196","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.114","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.55","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"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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