CVE-2025-40063

Linux Kernel 6.16-6.17.3 - Memory Corruption via Randomized scomp_alg Structure Layout

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: comp - Use same definition of context alloc and free ops In commit 42d9f6c77479 ("crypto: acomp - Move scomp stream allocation code into acomp"), the crypto_acomp_streams struct was made to rely on having the alloc_ctx and free_ctx operations defined in the same order as the scomp_alg struct. But in that same commit, the alloc_ctx and free_ctx members of scomp_alg may be randomized by structure layout randomization, since they are contained in a pure ops structure (containing only function pointers). If the pointers within scomp_alg are randomized, but those in crypto_acomp_streams are not, then the order may no longer match. This fixes the problem by removing the union from scomp_alg so that both crypto_acomp_streams and scomp_alg will share the same definition of alloc_ctx and free_ctx, ensuring they will always have the same layout.

Scores

EPSS 0.0017
EPSS Percentile 6.6%

Details

Status published
Products (7)
linux/Kernel 6.16.0 - 6.17.3linux
Linux/Linux < 6.16
Linux/Linux 42d9f6c774790d290c175e8775ce9f1366438098 - 779d3b6f2d32c5f1da6163e959abe1e1ffe2945b
Linux/Linux 42d9f6c774790d290c175e8775ce9f1366438098 - f75f66683ded09f7135aef2e763c245a07c8271a
Linux/Linux 6.16
Linux/Linux 6.17.3 - 6.17.*
Linux/Linux 6.18
Published Oct 28, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026