# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-40348"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-16T13:30:22.368Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:47:37.835Z"
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-2025-40348"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40348.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40348"
title: "slab: Avoid race on slab-\u003eobj_exts in alloc_slab_obj_exts"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nslab: Avoid race on slab-\u003eobj_exts in alloc_slab_obj_exts\n\nIf two competing threads enter alloc_slab_obj_exts() and one of them\nfails to allocate the object extension vector, it might override the\nvalid slab-\u003eobj_exts allocated by the other thread with\nOBJEXTS_ALLOC_FAIL. This will cause the thread that lost this race and\nexpects a valid pointer to dereference a NULL pointer later on.\n\nUpdate slab-\u003eobj_exts atomically using cmpxchg() to avoid\nslab-\u003eobj_exts overrides by racing threads.\n\nThanks for Vlastimil and Suren's help with debugging."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"715b6a5b41dae39baeaa40d3386b548bb278b9c2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c7af5300d78460fc5037ddc77113ba3dbfe77dc0"},{"version":"07e38a54cabd9b4de7ceb7f075f29ffa463e458a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7c34feda6a9a203c9744281f1b6671b7dad2012d"},{"version":"f7381b9116407ba2a429977c80ff8df953ea9354","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6ed8bfd24ce1cb31742b09a3eb557cd008533eec"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.12.54","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.56"},{"version":"6.17.4","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.17.6"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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