# 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-2025-40262"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-04T16:08:22.043Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:09:00.219Z"
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-2025-40262"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40262.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40262"
title: "Input: imx_sc_key - fix memory corruption on unload"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nInput: imx_sc_key - fix memory corruption on unload\n\nThis is supposed to be \"priv\" but we accidentally pass \"&priv\" which is\nan address in the stack and so it will lead to memory corruption when\nthe imx_sc_key_action() function is called.  Remove the &."
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