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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-40271" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-12-06T21:50:53.266Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:09:04.518Z" 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-2025-40271" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40271.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40271" title: "fs/proc: fix uaf in proc_readdir_de()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfs/proc: fix uaf in proc_readdir_de()\n\nPde is erased from subdir rbtree through rb_erase(), but not set the node\nto EMPTY, which may result in uaf access. We should use RB_CLEAR_NODE()\nset the erased node to EMPTY, then pde_subdir_next() will return NULL to\navoid uaf access.\n\nWe found an uaf issue while using stress-ng testing, need to run testcase\ngetdent and tun in the same time. The steps of the issue is as follows:\n\n1) use getdent to traverse dir /proc/pid/net/dev_snmp6/, and current\n pde is tun3;\n\n2) in the [time windows] unregister netdevice tun3 and tun2, and erase\n them from rbtree. erase tun3 first, and then erase tun2. the\n pde(tun2) will be released to slab;\n\n3) continue to getdent process, then pde_subdir_next() will return\n pde(tun2) which is released, it will case uaf access.\n\nCPU 0 | CPU 1\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------\ntraverse dir /proc/pid/net/dev_snmp6/ | unregister_netdevice(tun-\u003edev) //tun3 tun2\nsys_getdents64() |\n iterate_dir() |\n proc_readdir() |\n proc_readdir_de() | snmp6_unregister_dev()\n pde_get(de); | proc_remove()\n read_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock); | remove_proc_subtree()\n | write_lock(&proc_subdir_lock);\n [time window] | rb_erase(&root-\u003esubdir_node, &parent-\u003esubdir);\n | write_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock);\n read_lock(&proc_subdir_lock); |\n next = pde_subdir_next(de); |\n pde_put(de); |\n de = next; //UAF |\n\nrbtree of dev_snmp6\n |\n pde(tun3)\n / \\\n NULL pde(tun2)" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"710585d4922fd315f2cada8fbe550ae8ed23e994","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1d1596d68a6f11d28f677eedf6cf5b17dbfeb491"},{"version":"710585d4922fd315f2cada8fbe550ae8ed23e994","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c81d0385500446efe48c305bbb83d47f2ae23a50"},{"version":"710585d4922fd315f2cada8fbe550ae8ed23e994","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4cba73c4c89219beef7685a47374bf88b1022369"},{"version":"710585d4922fd315f2cada8fbe550ae8ed23e994","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6f2482745e510ae1dacc9b090194b9c5f918d774"},{"version":"710585d4922fd315f2cada8fbe550ae8ed23e994","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"67272c11f379d9aa5e0f6b16286b9d89b3f76046"},{"version":"710585d4922fd315f2cada8fbe550ae8ed23e994","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"623bb26127fb581a741e880e1e1a47d79aecb6f8"},{"version":"710585d4922fd315f2cada8fbe550ae8ed23e994","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"03de7ff197a3d0e17d0d5c58fdac99a63cba8110"},{"version":"710585d4922fd315f2cada8fbe550ae8ed23e994","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"895b4c0c79b092d732544011c3cecaf7322c36a1"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.19"},{"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":"6.6.117","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.59","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.17.9","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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