# 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-2025-40331"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-09T04:09:48.196Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:09:40.498Z"
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-2025-40331"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40331.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40331"
title: "sctp: Prevent TOCTOU out-of-bounds write"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsctp: Prevent TOCTOU out-of-bounds write\n\nFor the following path not holding the sock lock,\n\n  sctp_diag_dump() -\u003e sctp_for_each_endpoint() -\u003e sctp_ep_dump()\n\nmake sure not to exceed bounds in case the address list has grown\nbetween buffer allocation (time-of-check) and write (time-of-use)."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8f840e47f190cbe61a96945c13e9551048d42cef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b106a68df0650b694b254427cd9250c04500edd3"},{"version":"8f840e47f190cbe61a96945c13e9551048d42cef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3006959371007fc2eae4a078f823c680fa52de1a"},{"version":"8f840e47f190cbe61a96945c13e9551048d42cef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"72e3fea68eac8d088e44c3dd954e843478e9240e"},{"version":"8f840e47f190cbe61a96945c13e9551048d42cef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"584307275b2048991b2e8984962189b6cc0a9b85"},{"version":"8f840e47f190cbe61a96945c13e9551048d42cef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c9119f243d9c0da3c3b5f577a328de3e7ffd1b42"},{"version":"8f840e47f190cbe61a96945c13e9551048d42cef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2fe08fcaacb7eb019fa9c81db39b2214de216677"},{"version":"8f840e47f190cbe61a96945c13e9551048d42cef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"89eac1e150dbd42963e13d23828cb8c4e0763196"},{"version":"8f840e47f190cbe61a96945c13e9551048d42cef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"95aef86ab231f047bb8085c70666059b58f53c09"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.7"},{"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":"6.12.58","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.17.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.17.*"},{"version":"6.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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