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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-40172"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-11-12T10:53:49.245Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:08:17.861Z"
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-2025-40172"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40172.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40172"
title: "accel/qaic: Treat remaining == 0 as error in find_and_map_user_pages()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\naccel/qaic: Treat remaining == 0 as error in find_and_map_user_pages()\n\nCurrently, if find_and_map_user_pages() takes a DMA xfer request from the\nuser with a length field set to 0, or in a rare case, the host receives\nQAIC_TRANS_DMA_XFER_CONT from the device where resources-\u003exferred_dma_size\nis equal to the requested transaction size, the function will return 0\nbefore allocating an sgt or setting the fields of the dma_xfer struct.\nIn that case, encode_addr_size_pairs() will try to access the sgt which\nwill lead to a general protection fault.\n\nReturn an EINVAL in case the user provides a zero-sized ALP, or the device\nrequests continuation after all of the bytes have been transferred."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"96d3c1cadedb6ae2e8965e19cd12caa244afbd9c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"48b1d42286bfef7628b1d6c8c28d4e456c90f725"},{"version":"96d3c1cadedb6ae2e8965e19cd12caa244afbd9c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"551f1dfbcb7f3e6ed07f9d6c8c1c64337fcd0ede"},{"version":"96d3c1cadedb6ae2e8965e19cd12caa244afbd9c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1ab9733d14cc9987cc5dcd1f0ad1f416e302e2e6"},{"version":"96d3c1cadedb6ae2e8965e19cd12caa244afbd9c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"11f08c30a3e4157305ba692f1d44cca5fc9a8fca"},{"version":"d410a96e5cb8c1ec7049c83f2edcd8bbfaf5d9b3","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.4.12","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.5"},{"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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