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CVE-2025-40291

High 7.8

Published
Last modified
NVD status
Deferred

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring: fix regbuf vector size truncation There is a report of io_estimate_bvec_size() truncating the calculated number of segments that leads to corruption issues. Check it doesn't overflow "int"s used later. Rough but simple, can be improved on top.

References2

Metrics

CVSS 3.1
7.8 HIGH Score source: CNA CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS — exploit probability
0% percentile: 5 · as of 11 November 2026

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