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CVE-2025-40063: Linux 6.16
CVE-2025-40063. CVSS 3.1 base score 7.0 (HIGH, Source advisory). EPSS 0.0013 (percentile 0.02316), scored 19-Oct-2026.
Affected technology
Linux · 42d9f6c774790d290c175e8775ce9f1366438098 to before 779d3b6f2d32c5f1da6163e959abe1e1ffe2945b, 42d9f6c774790d290c175e8775ce9f1366438098 to before f75f66683ded09f7135aef2e763c245a07c8271a
Linux
Linux · 6.16
Linux
Component: Not specified by the source
Function: pointers
File: crypto/842.c, crypto/lz4.c, crypto/lz4hc.c, crypto/lzo-rle.c, crypto/lzo.c, drivers/crypto/nx/nx-common-powernv.c, drivers/crypto/nx/nx-common-pseries.c, include/crypto/internal/scompress.h
Attack conditions (Source advisory, CVSS 3.1): Local · Low privileges required · No user interaction required
What an attacker can do
Source advisory’s CVSS 3.1 assessment (base score 7.0/10) rates confidentiality, integrity and availability impact as high. The description does not specify what an attacker can achieve beyond these rated impacts.
- CCR priority
- 28.0 /100 (P4)
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.0 /10 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H · Source advisory
- EPSS
- 0.0013 · percentile 0.02316 · 2026-10-19
- KEV
- no
Provenance
- NVD CVE API 2.0 · Source record · observed 2026-10-20 01:44:01.123206+00:00 UTC
Stable permalink: https://cybercodered.org/item/cve-cve-2025-40063.html