CVE-2025-40031

Linux kernel - Null Pointer Dereference

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tee: fix register_shm_helper() In register_shm_helper(), fix incorrect error handling for a call to iov_iter_extract_pages(). A case is missing for when iov_iter_extract_pages() only got some pages and return a number larger than 0, but not the requested amount. This fixes a possible NULL pointer dereference following a bad input from ioctl(TEE_IOC_SHM_REGISTER) where parts of the buffer isn't mapped.

Scores

EPSS 0.0019
EPSS Percentile 9.3%

Details

Status published
Products (10)
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.17.3linux
linux/Kernel 6.8.0 - 6.12.53linux
Linux/Linux < 6.8
Linux/Linux 6.12.53 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.17.3 - 6.17.*
Linux/Linux 6.18
Linux/Linux 6.8
Linux/Linux 7bdee41575919773818e525ea19e54eb817770af - 6a7874ab814ce12003c46a92f7afc9b035c8e8e9
Linux/Linux 7bdee41575919773818e525ea19e54eb817770af - 9338093db954918558677a468d32e77041c65167
Linux/Linux 7bdee41575919773818e525ea19e54eb817770af - d5cf5b37064b1699d946e8b7ab4ac7d7d101814c
Published Oct 28, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026