# 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-2025-40240"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-04T15:31:29.715Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:08:44.117Z"
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-2025-40240"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40240.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40240"
title: "sctp: avoid NULL dereference when chunk data buffer is missing"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsctp: avoid NULL dereference when chunk data buffer is missing\n\nchunk-\u003eskb pointer is dereferenced in the if-block where it's supposed\nto be NULL only.\n\nchunk-\u003eskb can only be NULL if chunk-\u003ehead_skb is not. Check for frag_list\ninstead and do it just before replacing chunk-\u003eskb. We're sure that\notherwise chunk-\u003eskb is non-NULL because of outer if() condition."
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