# 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-2025-40263"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-04T16:08:23.327Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-02T13:00:15.067Z"
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-2025-40263"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40263.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40263"
title: "Input: cros_ec_keyb - fix an invalid memory access"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nInput: cros_ec_keyb - fix an invalid memory access\n\nIf cros_ec_keyb_register_matrix() isn't called (due to\n`buttons_switches_only`) in cros_ec_keyb_probe(), `ckdev-\u003eidev` remains\nNULL.  An invalid memory access is observed in cros_ec_keyb_process()\nwhen receiving an EC_MKBP_EVENT_KEY_MATRIX event in cros_ec_keyb_work()\nin such case.\n\n  Unable to handle kernel read from unreadable memory at virtual address 0000000000000028\n  ...\n  x3 : 0000000000000000 x2 : 0000000000000000\n  x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 0000000000000000\n  Call trace:\n  input_event\n  cros_ec_keyb_work\n  blocking_notifier_call_chain\n  ec_irq_thread\n\nIt's still unknown about why the kernel receives such malformed event,\nin any cases, the kernel shouldn't access `ckdev-\u003eidev` and friends if\nthe driver doesn't intend to initialize them."
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