Upstream information

CVE-2025-40135 at MITRE

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ipv6: use RCU in ip6_xmit()

Use RCU in ip6_xmit() in order to use dst_dev_rcu() to prevent
possible UAF.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1253342 [NEW]

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed Nov 12 18:29:52 2025
CVE page last modified: Wed Nov 12 18:29:52 2025