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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-40214" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-12-04T12:38:31.601Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:08:39.553Z" 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-2025-40214" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40214.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40214" title: "af_unix: Initialise scc_index in unix_add_edge()." summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\naf_unix: Initialise scc_index in unix_add_edge().\n\nQuang Le reported that the AF_UNIX GC could garbage-collect a\nreceive queue of an alive in-flight socket, with a nice repro.\n\nThe repro consists of three stages.\n\n 1)\n 1-a. Create a single cyclic reference with many sockets\n 1-b. close() all sockets\n 1-c. Trigger GC\n\n 2)\n 2-a. Pass sk-A to an embryo sk-B\n 2-b. Pass sk-X to sk-X\n 2-c. Trigger GC\n\n 3)\n 3-a. accept() the embryo sk-B\n 3-b. Pass sk-B to sk-C\n 3-c. close() the in-flight sk-A\n 3-d. Trigger GC\n\nAs of 2-c, sk-A and sk-X are linked to unix_unvisited_vertices,\nand unix_walk_scc() groups them into two different SCCs:\n\n unix_sk(sk-A)-\u003evertex-\u003escc_index = 2 (UNIX_VERTEX_INDEX_START)\n unix_sk(sk-X)-\u003evertex-\u003escc_index = 3\n\nOnce GC completes, unix_graph_grouped is set to true.\nAlso, unix_graph_maybe_cyclic is set to true due to sk-X's\ncyclic self-reference, which makes close() trigger GC.\n\nAt 3-b, unix_add_edge() allocates unix_sk(sk-B)-\u003evertex and\nlinks it to unix_unvisited_vertices.\n\nunix_update_graph() is called at 3-a. and 3-b., but neither\nunix_graph_grouped nor unix_graph_maybe_cyclic is changed\nbecause both sk-B's listener and sk-C are not in-flight.\n\n3-c decrements sk-A's file refcnt to 1.\n\nSince unix_graph_grouped is true at 3-d, unix_walk_scc_fast()\nis finally called and iterates 3 sockets sk-A, sk-B, and sk-X:\n\n sk-A -\u003e sk-B (-\u003e sk-C)\n sk-X -\u003e sk-X\n\nThis is totally fine. All of them are not yet close()d and\nshould be grouped into different SCCs.\n\nHowever, unix_vertex_dead() misjudges that sk-A and sk-B are\nin the same SCC and sk-A is dead.\n\n unix_sk(sk-A)-\u003escc_index == unix_sk(sk-B)-\u003escc_index \u003c-- Wrong!\n &&\n sk-A's file refcnt == unix_sk(sk-A)-\u003evertex-\u003eout_degree\n ^-- 1 in-flight count for sk-B\n -\u003e sk-A is dead !?\n\nThe problem is that unix_add_edge() does not initialise scc_index.\n\nStage 1) is used for heap spraying, making a newly allocated\nvertex have vertex-\u003escc_index == 2 (UNIX_VERTEX_INDEX_START)\nset by unix_walk_scc() at 1-c.\n\nLet's track the max SCC index from the previous unix_walk_scc()\ncall and assign the max + 1 to a new vertex's scc_index.\n\nThis way, we can continue to avoid Tarjan's algorithm while\npreventing misjudgments." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"adfb68b39b39767d6bfb53e48c4f19c183765686","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"20003fbb9174121b27bd1da6ebe61542ac4c327d"},{"version":"d23802221f6755e104606864067c71af8cdb6788","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4cd8d755c7d4f515dd9abf483316aca2f1b7b0f3"},{"version":"ad081928a8b0f57f269df999a28087fce6f2b6ce","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"db81ad20fd8aef7cc7d536c52ee5ea4c1f979128"},{"version":"ad081928a8b0f57f269df999a28087fce6f2b6ce","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1aa7e40ee850c9053e769957ce6541173891204d"},{"version":"ad081928a8b0f57f269df999a28087fce6f2b6ce","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"60e6489f8e3b086bd1130ad4450a2c112e863791"},{"version":"6.1.141","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.159"},{"version":"6.6.93","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.117"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.10"},{"version":"6.1.159","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.117","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.59","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.17.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.17.*"},{"version":"6.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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