# 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-2025-40193"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-11-12T21:56:31.751Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:44:33.601Z"
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-2025-40193"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40193.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40193"
title: "xtensa: simdisk: add input size check in proc_write_simdisk"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxtensa: simdisk: add input size check in proc_write_simdisk\n\nA malicious user could pass an arbitrarily bad value\nto memdup_user_nul(), potentially causing kernel crash.\n\nThis follows the same pattern as commit ee76746387f6\n(\"netdevsim: prevent bad user input in nsim_dev_health_break_write()\")"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b6c7e873daf765e41233b9752083b66442703b7a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f40405ccfb87b71175f2d5d004c0b8a0aebcc2cf"},{"version":"b6c7e873daf765e41233b9752083b66442703b7a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"151bd88859474cdaccc1e4c8b21fbf72dbba2ab4"},{"version":"b6c7e873daf765e41233b9752083b66442703b7a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d381de7fd4cdc928ede96987dc64b133e6480dd6"},{"version":"b6c7e873daf765e41233b9752083b66442703b7a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a0c2c36d864ef3676b05cfd8c58b72ee3214cb1a"},{"version":"b6c7e873daf765e41233b9752083b66442703b7a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5d5f08fd0cd970184376bee07d59f635c8403f63"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.9"},{"version":"6.1.157","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.113","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.54","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.17.4","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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