Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 6.1, Linux 6.12

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: nfc: nci: Added parameter validation for packet data. Syzbot reported a bug involving uninitialized values in nciinitreq. This bug was introduced through the commit 5aca7966d2a7 “Merge tag...

CVE-2025-40043

CVE-2025-40043 relates to a Linux kernel issue in net: nfc: nci where input validation was insufficient in handling packet data. Syzbot found an uninitialized value bug in nci_init_req caused by limited validation in nic_valid_size(), which compared skb->len (user-provided size) to the buffer’...