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High 8.6Published Oct 28, 2025

CVE-2025-40046io_uring/zcrx: fix overshooting recv limit

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No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring/zcrx: fix overshooting recv limit It's reported that sometimes a zcrx request can receive more than was requested. It's caused by io_zcrx_recv_skb() adjusting desc->count for all received buffers including frag lists, but then doing recursive calls to process frag list skbs, which leads to desc->count double accounting and underflow.

CVSS
8.6 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
Not given
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
Linux
NVD analysis
Deferred
Record last updated
Aug 5, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
Linux Linux
linux:linux (from the name)
6699ec9a23f85f1764183430209c741847c45f12 builds before 8bcc9eaf1b19f1a7029cba19f6bd4122b40f6c4f; 6699ec9a23f85f1764183430209c741847c45f12 builds before 09cfd3c52ea76f43b3cb15e570aeddf633d65e80
CNA record

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