# 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-2025-40360"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-16T13:39:59.490Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:47:51.912Z"
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-2025-40360"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40360.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40360"
title: "drm/sysfb: Do not dereference NULL pointer in plane reset"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/sysfb: Do not dereference NULL pointer in plane reset\n\nThe plane state in __drm_gem_reset_shadow_plane() can be NULL. Do not\nderef that pointer, but forward NULL to the other plane-reset helpers.\nClears plane-\u003estate to NULL.\n\nv2:\n- fix typo in commit description (Javier)"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b715650220311e50448cb499c71084ca8aeeeece","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6abeff03cb79a2c7f4554a8e8738acd35bb37152"},{"version":"b715650220311e50448cb499c71084ca8aeeeece","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c4faf7f417eea8b8d5cc570a1015736f307aa2d5"},{"version":"b715650220311e50448cb499c71084ca8aeeeece","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b61ed8005bd3102510fab5015ac6a275c9c5ea16"},{"version":"b715650220311e50448cb499c71084ca8aeeeece","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6bdef5648a60e49d4a3b02461ab7ae3776877e77"},{"version":"b715650220311e50448cb499c71084ca8aeeeece","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c7d5e69866bbe95c1e4ab4c10a81e0a02d9ea232"},{"version":"b715650220311e50448cb499c71084ca8aeeeece","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"14e02ed3876f4ab0ed6d3f41972175f8b8df3d70"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15"},{"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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