# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-40255"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-04T16:08:17.023Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:45:47.848Z"
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-2025-40255"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40255.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40255"
title: "net: core: prevent NULL deref in generic_hwtstamp_ioctl_lower()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: core: prevent NULL deref in generic_hwtstamp_ioctl_lower()\n\nThe ethtool tsconfig Netlink path can trigger a null pointer\ndereference. A call chain such as:\n\n  tsconfig_prepare_data() -\u003e\n  dev_get_hwtstamp_phylib() -\u003e\n  vlan_hwtstamp_get() -\u003e\n  generic_hwtstamp_get_lower() -\u003e\n  generic_hwtstamp_ioctl_lower()\n\nresults in generic_hwtstamp_ioctl_lower() being called with\nkernel_cfg-\u003eifr as NULL.\n\nThe generic_hwtstamp_ioctl_lower() function does not expect\na NULL ifr and dereferences it, leading to a system crash.\n\nFix this by adding a NULL check for kernel_cfg-\u003eifr in\ngeneric_hwtstamp_ioctl_lower(). If ifr is NULL, return -EINVAL."
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