# 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-2025-40171"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-11-12T10:46:52.289Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T22:02:39.456Z"
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-2025-40171"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40171.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40171"
title: "nvmet-fc: move lsop put work to nvmet_fc_ls_req_op"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnvmet-fc: move lsop put work to nvmet_fc_ls_req_op\n\nIt’s possible for more than one async command to be in flight from\n__nvmet_fc_send_ls_req. For each command, a tgtport reference is taken.\n\nIn the current code, only one put work item is queued at a time, which\nresults in a leaked reference.\n\nTo fix this, move the work item to the nvmet_fc_ls_req_op struct, which\nalready tracks all resources related to the command."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"5e0bc09a52b6169ce90f7ac6e195791adb16cec4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"11269c08013f4ee8b8f5edc6c56700acb34092d0"},{"version":"9e6987f8937a7bd7516aa52f25cb7e12c0c92ee8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a28112cc55013cd8cbd5d36b5115a5b851151bd9"},{"version":"eaf0971fdabf2a93c1429dc6bedf3bbe85dffa30","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"060ecc81240ef9d60d9485a3a5eb55a0d6e7a25c"},{"version":"710c69dbaccdac312e32931abcb8499c1525d397","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7331925c247b03b7767b8cd93cfe1b7aa2377850"},{"version":"710c69dbaccdac312e32931abcb8499c1525d397","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7a619f8c869117ffed08365b377f66b7e1d941b4"},{"version":"710c69dbaccdac312e32931abcb8499c1525d397","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"db5a5406fb7e5337a074385c7a3e53c77f2c1bd3"},{"version":"1d86f79287206deec36d63b89c741cf542b6cadd","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.15.150","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.195"},{"version":"6.1.80","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.156"},{"version":"6.6.19","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.112"},{"version":"6.7.7","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.8"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.8"},{"version":"5.15.195","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.156","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"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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