# 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-2025-40202"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-11-12T21:56:34.527Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:08:30.982Z"
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-2025-40202"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40202.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40202"
title: "ipmi: Rework user message limit handling"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipmi: Rework user message limit handling\n\nThe limit on the number of user messages had a number of issues,\nimproper counting in some cases and a use after free.\n\nRestructure how this is all done to handle more in the receive message\nallocation routine, so all refcouting and user message limit counts\nare done in that routine.  It's a lot cleaner and safer."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8e76741c3d8b20dfa2d6c30fa10ff927cfd93d82","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f63723ca7d7623f9dae1990973cd158671f03c56"},{"version":"8e76741c3d8b20dfa2d6c30fa10ff927cfd93d82","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"348121b29594d42d1635648fd3ed31dfa25351d5"},{"version":"8e76741c3d8b20dfa2d6c30fa10ff927cfd93d82","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"53d6e403affbf6df2c859a0ea00ccfc1e72090ca"},{"version":"8e76741c3d8b20dfa2d6c30fa10ff927cfd93d82","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0ed73be9a2547ffb9b5c1d879ad9bfab73d920b5"},{"version":"8e76741c3d8b20dfa2d6c30fa10ff927cfd93d82","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b52da4054ee0bf9ecb44996f2c83236ff50b3812"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.19"},{"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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