# 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-2025-40315"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-08T00:46:41.896Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T16:02:03.665Z"
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-2025-40315"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40315.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40315"
title: "usb: gadget: f_fs: Fix epfile null pointer access after ep enable."
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nusb: gadget: f_fs: Fix epfile null pointer access after ep enable.\n\nA race condition occurs when ffs_func_eps_enable() runs concurrently\nwith ffs_data_reset(). The ffs_data_clear() called in ffs_data_reset()\nsets ffs-\u003eepfiles to NULL before resetting ffs-\u003eeps_count to 0, leading\nto a NULL pointer dereference when accessing epfile-\u003eep in\nffs_func_eps_enable() after successful usb_ep_enable().\n\nThe ffs-\u003eepfiles pointer is set to NULL in both ffs_data_clear() and\nffs_data_close() functions, and its modification is protected by the\nspinlock ffs-\u003eeps_lock. And the whole ffs_func_eps_enable() function\nis also protected by ffs-\u003eeps_lock.\n\nThus, add NULL pointer handling for ffs-\u003eepfiles in the\nffs_func_eps_enable() function to fix issues"
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