# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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- Obtain operator approval before production changes. No commands or remediation were generated. This historical snapshot does not establish current applicability, a released fix or exploitation; no network or model call generated this brief.

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-2025-40253"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-04T16:08:15.340Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T22:02:41.932Z"
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-2025-40253"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40253.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40253"
title: "s390/ctcm: Fix double-kfree"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ns390/ctcm: Fix double-kfree\n\nThe function 'mpc_rcvd_sweep_req(mpcginfo)' is called conditionally\nfrom function 'ctcmpc_unpack_skb'. It frees passed mpcginfo.\nAfter that a call to function 'kfree' in function 'ctcmpc_unpack_skb'\nfrees it again.\n\nRemove 'kfree' call in function 'mpc_rcvd_sweep_req(mpcginfo)'.\n\nBug detected by the clang static analyzer."
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