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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-40248" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-12-04T16:08:11.509Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:08:50.554Z" 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-2025-40248" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40248.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40248" title: "vsock: Ignore signal/timeout on connect() if already established" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvsock: Ignore signal/timeout on connect() if already established\n\nDuring connect(), acting on a signal/timeout by disconnecting an already\nestablished socket leads to several issues:\n\n1. connect() invoking vsock_transport_cancel_pkt() -\u003e\n virtio_transport_purge_skbs() may race with sendmsg() invoking\n virtio_transport_get_credit(). This results in a permanently elevated\n `vvs-\u003ebytes_unsent`. Which, in turn, confuses the SOCK_LINGER handling.\n\n2. connect() resetting a connected socket's state may race with socket\n being placed in a sockmap. A disconnected socket remaining in a sockmap\n breaks sockmap's assumptions. And gives rise to WARNs.\n\n3. connect() transitioning SS_CONNECTED -\u003e SS_UNCONNECTED allows for a\n transport change/drop after TCP_ESTABLISHED. Which poses a problem for\n any simultaneous sendmsg() or connect() and may result in a\n use-after-free/null-ptr-deref.\n\nDo not disconnect socket on signal/timeout. Keep the logic for unconnected\nsockets: they don't linger, can't be placed in a sockmap, are rejected by\nsendmsg().\n\n[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/e07fd95c-9a38-4eea-9638-133e38c2ec9b@rbox.co/\n[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250317-vsock-trans-signal-race-v4-0-fc8837f3f1d4@rbox.co/\n[3]: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/60f1b7db-3099-4f6a-875e-af9f6ef194f6@rbox.co/" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"d021c344051af91f42c5ba9fdedc176740cbd238","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3f71753935d648082a8279a97d30efe6b85be680"},{"version":"d021c344051af91f42c5ba9fdedc176740cbd238","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"da664101fb4a0de5cb70d2bae6a650df954df2af"},{"version":"d021c344051af91f42c5ba9fdedc176740cbd238","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"67432915145848658149683101104e32f9fd6559"},{"version":"d021c344051af91f42c5ba9fdedc176740cbd238","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"eeca93f06df89be5a36305b7b9dae1ed65550dfc"},{"version":"d021c344051af91f42c5ba9fdedc176740cbd238","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5998da5a8208ae9ad7838ba322bccb2bdcd95e81"},{"version":"d021c344051af91f42c5ba9fdedc176740cbd238","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f1c170cae285e4b8f61be043bb17addc3d0a14b5"},{"version":"d021c344051af91f42c5ba9fdedc176740cbd238","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ab6b19f690d89ae4709fba73a3c4a7911f495b7a"},{"version":"d021c344051af91f42c5ba9fdedc176740cbd238","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"002541ef650b742a198e4be363881439bb9d86b4"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.9"},{"version":"5.4.302","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.247","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.197","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.159","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.118","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.60","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.17.10","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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