🛡️ UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40123
⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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CVSS Score
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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Enforce expected_attach_type for tailcall compatibility Yinhao et al. recently reported: Our fuzzer tool discovered an uninitialized pointer issue in the bpf_prog_test_run_xdp() function within the Linux kernel's BPF subsystem. This leads to a NULL pointer dereference when a BPF program attempts to deference the txq member of struct xdp_buff object. The test initializes two programs of BPF_PROG_TYPE_XDP: progA acts as the entry point for bpf_prog_test_run_xdp() and its expected_attach_type can neither be of be BPF_XDP_DEVMAP nor BPF_XDP_CPUMAP. progA calls into a slot of a tailcall map it owns. progB's expected_attach_type must be BPF_XDP_DEVMAP to pass xdp_is_valid_access() validation. The program returns struct xdp_md's egress_ifindex, and the latter is only allowed to be accessed under mentioned expected_attach_type. progB is then inserted into the tailcall which progA calls. The underlying issue goes beyond XDP though. Another example are programs of type BPF_PROG_TYPE_CGROUP_SOCK_ADDR. sock_addr_is_valid_access() as well as sock_addr_func_proto() have different logic depending on the programs' expected_attach_type. Similarly, a program attached to BPF_CGROUP_INET4_GETPEERNAME should not be allowed doing a tailcall into a program which calls bpf_bind() out of BPF which is only enabled for BPF_CGROUP_INET4_CONNECT. In short, specifying expected_attach_type allows to open up additional functionality or restrictions beyond what the basic bpf_prog_type enables. The use of tailcalls must not violate these constraints. Fix it by enforcing expected_attach_type in __bpf_prog_map_compatible(). Note that we only enforce this for tailcall maps, but not for BPF devmaps or cpumaps: There, the programs are invoked through dev_map_bpf_prog_run*() and cpu_map_bpf_prog_run*() which set up a new environment / context and therefore these situations are not prone to this issue.

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-11-12
Updated 2026-06-15
Modified 2026-06-08
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
linux 6.17.0-14.14
linux-allwinner-5.19
linux-aws 6.17.0-1007.7
linux-aws-5.0
linux-aws-5.11
linux-aws-5.13
linux-aws-5.15
linux-aws-5.19
linux-aws-5.3
linux-aws-5.4
linux-aws-5.8
linux-aws-6.14
linux-aws-6.17 6.17.0-1007.7~24.04.1
linux-aws-6.2
linux-aws-6.5
linux-aws-6.8 6.8.0-1050.53~22.04.1
linux-aws-fips 6.8.0-1050.53+fips1
linux-azure 6.17.0-1008.8
linux-azure-5.11
linux-azure-5.13
linux-azure-5.15
linux-azure-5.19
linux-azure-5.3
linux-azure-5.4
linux-azure-5.8
linux-azure-6.11
linux-azure-6.14
linux-azure-6.2
linux-azure-6.5
linux-azure-6.8 6.8.0-1051.57~22.04.1
linux-azure-edge
linux-azure-fde
linux-azure-fde-5.19
linux-azure-fde-6.14
linux-azure-fde-6.17
linux-azure-fde-6.2
linux-azure-fde-6.8
linux-azure-fips 6.8.0-1052.58+fips1
linux-azure-nvidia
linux-azure-nvidia-6.14
linux-bluefield
linux-fips 6.8.0-106.106+fips1
linux-gcp 6.17.0-1007.7
linux-gcp-5.11
linux-gcp-5.13
linux-gcp-5.15
linux-gcp-5.19
linux-gcp-5.3
linux-gcp-5.4
linux-gcp-5.8
linux-gcp-6.11
linux-gcp-6.14
linux-gcp-6.17 6.17.0-1008.8~24.04.1
linux-gcp-6.2
linux-gcp-6.5
linux-gcp-6.8 6.8.0-1052.55~22.04.1
linux-gcp-fips 6.8.0-1052.55+fips1
linux-gke 6.8.0-1048.53
linux-gke-4.15
linux-gke-5.15
linux-gke-5.4
linux-gkeop 6.8.0-1035.38
linux-gkeop-5.15
linux-gkeop-5.4
linux-hwe
linux-hwe-5.11
linux-hwe-5.13
linux-hwe-5.15
linux-hwe-5.19
linux-hwe-5.4
linux-hwe-5.8
linux-hwe-6.11
linux-hwe-6.14
linux-hwe-6.2
linux-hwe-6.5
linux-hwe-6.8 6.8.0-106.106~22.04.1
linux-hwe-edge
linux-ibm 6.8.0-1049.49
linux-ibm-5.15
linux-ibm-5.4
linux-ibm-6.8 6.8.0-1049.49~22.04.1
linux-intel-5.13
linux-intel-iot-realtime
linux-intel-iotg
linux-intel-iotg-5.15
linux-iot
linux-kvm
linux-lowlatency 6.8.0-106.106.1
linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15
linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19
linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11
linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2
linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5
linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8 6.8.0-106.106.1~22.04.1
linux-nvidia 6.8.0-1049.52
linux-nvidia-6.11
linux-nvidia-6.17 6.17.0-1008.8
linux-nvidia-6.2
linux-nvidia-6.5
linux-nvidia-6.8 6.8.0-1049.52~22.04.1
linux-nvidia-lowlatency 6.8.0-1049.52.1
linux-nvidia-tegra 6.8.0-1020.20
linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15
linux-nvidia-tegra-igx
linux-oem
linux-oem-5.10
linux-oem-5.13
linux-oem-5.14
linux-oem-5.17
linux-oem-5.6
linux-oem-6.0
linux-oem-6.1
linux-oem-6.11
linux-oem-6.14
linux-oem-6.17 6.17.0-1011.11
linux-oem-6.5
linux-oem-6.8
linux-oracle 6.17.0-1007.7
linux-oracle-5.0
linux-oracle-5.11
linux-oracle-5.13
linux-oracle-5.15
linux-oracle-5.3
linux-oracle-5.4
linux-oracle-5.8
linux-oracle-6.14
linux-oracle-6.17 6.17.0-1007.7~24.04.1
linux-oracle-6.5
linux-oracle-6.8 6.8.0-1047.48~22.04.1
linux-raspi 6.17.0-1008.8
linux-raspi-5.4
linux-raspi-realtime 6.8.0-2040.41
linux-raspi2
linux-realtime 6.17.0-1006.7
linux-realtime-6.14
linux-realtime-6.17 6.17.0-1006.7~24.04.1
linux-realtime-6.8 6.8.1-1045.46~22.04.1
linux-riscv 6.17.0-14.14.1
linux-riscv-5.11
linux-riscv-5.15
linux-riscv-5.19
linux-riscv-5.8
linux-riscv-6.14
linux-riscv-6.5
linux-riscv-6.8 6.8.0-106.106~22.04.1
linux-starfive-5.19
linux-starfive-6.2
linux-starfive-6.5
linux-xilinx 6.8.0-1028.29
linux-xilinx-zynqmp

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