Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 6.1, Linux 6.12

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: mm/ksm: fixed the behavior of flag-dropping in ksmmadvise. Syzkaller discovered the following crash: kernel BUG 44.607039 ------------ cut here ------------ 44.607422 Kernel BUG at mm/userfaultfd.c:2067! 44.608148 Oops: invali...

CVE-2025-40040

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/ksm: fix flag-dropping behavior in ksmmadvise syzkaller discovered the following crash: kernel BUG 44.607039 ------------ cut here ------------ 44.607422 kernel BUG at mm/userfaultfd.c:2067! 44.608148 Oops: invalid opcode: 000...

CVE-2025-40040

CVE-2025-40040 (Linux kernel) affects the flag-dropping behavior in mm/ksm when madvise() is used on a UFFD-registered VMA. The issue arises from the interaction of VM_MERGEABLE and 32/64-bit width when applying the &= ~VM_MERGEABLE on vm_flags, which can clear the upper 32 bits and trigger a ker...

EUVD-2025-36488

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/ksm: fix flag-dropping behavior in ksmmadvise syzkaller discovered the following crash: kernel BUG 44.607039 ------------ cut here ------------ 44.607422 kernel BUG at mm/userfaultfd.c:2067! 44.608148 Oops: invalid opcode: 000...

CVE-2025-40040 mm/ksm: fix flag-dropping behavior in ksm_madvise

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/ksm: fix flag-dropping behavior in ksmmadvise syzkaller discovered the following crash: kernel BUG 44.607039 ------------ cut here ------------ 44.607422 kernel BUG at mm/userfaultfd.c:2067! 44.608148 Oops: invalid opcode: 000...