VulnerabilityPublished 28 Oct 2025Updated 31 Jul 2026

CVE-2025-40027: Linux kernel · net/9p: fix double req put in p9_fd_cancelled

Affects Linux kernelSource GCVE Database

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 7.8 High · fixed in 5.15.0-1110.119~20.04.1 : patch Linux kernel soon.

Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 14:05 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

7.8High

How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 5% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Patch: Available – fixed in 5.15.0-1110.119~20.04.1, 5.15.0-1100.109~20.04.1, 5.15.0-1100.107~20.04.2 +2

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector: Local
Attack Complexity: Low
Privileges Required: Low
User Interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: High
Integrity: High
Availability: High

Bold values are the worst case: easiest to exploit or largest impact.

Attack Vector: Local: The vulnerable component is not bound to the network stack and the attacker’s path is via read/write/execute capabilities. Either: the attacker exploits the vulnerability by accessing the target system locally (e.g., keyboard, console), or remotely (e.g., SSH); or the attacker relies on User Interaction by another person to perform actions required to exploit the vulnerability (e.g., tricking a legitimate user into opening a malicious document).
Attack Complexity: Low: Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable component.
Privileges Required: Low: The attacker is authorized with (i.e., requires) privileges that provide basic user capabilities that could normally affect only settings and files owned by a user. Alternatively, an attacker with Low privileges may have the ability to cause an impact only to non-sensitive resources.
User Interaction: None: The vulnerable system can be exploited without any interaction from any user.
Scope: Unchanged: An exploited vulnerability can only affect resources managed by the same security authority. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are either the same, or both are managed by the same security authority.
Confidentiality: High: There is total loss of confidentiality, resulting in all resources within the impacted component being divulged to the attacker. Alternatively, access to only some restricted information is obtained, but the disclosed information presents a direct, serious impact.
Integrity: High: There is a total loss of integrity, or a complete loss of protection. For example, the attacker is able to modify any/all files protected by the impacted component. Alternatively, only some files can be modified, but malicious modification would present a direct, serious consequence to the impacted component.
Availability: High: There is total loss of availability, resulting in the attacker being able to fully deny access to resources in the impacted component; this loss is either sustained (while the attacker continues to deliver the attack) or persistent (the condition persists even after the attack has completed). Alternatively, the attacker has the ability to deny some availability, but the loss of availability presents a direct, serious consequence to the impacted component (e.g., the attacker cannot disrupt existing connections, but can prevent new connections; the attacker can repeatedly exploit a vulnerability that, in each instance of a successful attack, leaks a only small amount of memory, but after repeated exploitation causes a service to become completely unavailable).

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 28 Oct 2025
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 26 Oct 2026.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponised: Public exploit code exists in Metasploit or Exploit-DB, or CISA SSVC or the CVSS exploit maturity reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

ghsa-wv8v-rm52-wq8h

What to do

Upgrade to a fixed release listed under Affected software.

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
linux-aws	Affected <5.15.0-1100.107~20.04.2 <5.15.0-1110.119~20.04.1 <5.15.0-1100.109~20.04.1 <5.15.0-170.180~20.04.3 <5.15.0-1094.97~20.04.1	Fixed in 5.15.0-1100.107~20.04.2 5.15.0-1110.119~20.04.1 5.15.0-1100.109~20.04.1 5.15.0-170.180~20.04.3 5.15.0-1094.97~20.04.1

AI-suggested

A fix has been committed to the Linux kernel (commit 74d6a5d56629) addressing the concurrency issue in the 9p filesystem client. Users should apply the official kernel update containing this patch. Since this is a kernel-level vulnerability, upgrading to a patched kernel version is the recommended mitigation. Patch status is not explicitly stated in the provided data; check the vendor or kernel mailing list advisories for the exact fixed kernel versions.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/9p: fix double req put in p9_fd_cancelled Syzkaller reports a KASAN issue as below: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xfbd59c0000000021: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI KASAN: maybe wild-memory-access in range [0xdead000000000108-0xdead00000000010f] CPU: 0 PID: 5083 Comm: syz-executor.2 Not tainted 6.1.134-syzkaller-00037-g855bd1d7d838 #0 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.12.0-1 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:__list_del include/linux/list.h:114 [inline] RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry include/linux/list.h:137 [inline] RIP: 0010:list_del include/linux/list.h:148 [inline] RIP: 0010:p9_fd_cancelled+0xe9/0x200 net/9p/trans_fd.c:734 Call Trace: <TASK> p9_client_flush+0x351/0x440 net/9p/client.c:614 p9_client_rpc+0xb6b/0xc70 net/9p/client.c:734 p9_client_version net/9p/client.c:920 [inline] p9_client_create+0xb51/0x1240 net/9p/client.c:1027 v9fs_session_init+0x1f0/0x18f0 fs/9p/v9fs.c:408 v9fs_mount+0xba/0xcb0 fs/9p/vfs_super.c:126 legacy_get_tree+0x108/0x220 fs/fs_context.c:632 vfs_get_tree+0x8e/0x300 fs/super.c:1573 do_new_mount fs/namespace.c:3056 [inline] path_mount+0x6a6/0x1e90 fs/namespace.c:3386 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3399 [inline] __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3607 [inline] __se_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3584 [inline] __x64_sys_mount+0x283/0x300 fs/namespace.c:3584 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8 This happens because of a race condition between: - The 9p client sending an invalid flush request and later cleaning it up; - The 9p client in p9_read_work() canceled all pending requests. Thread 1 Thread 2 ... p9_client_create() ... p9_fd_create() ... p9_conn_create() ... // start Thread 2 INIT_WORK(&m->rq, p9_read_work); p9_read_work() ... p9_client_rpc() ... ... p9_conn_cancel() ... spin_lock(&m->req_lock); ... p9_fd_cancelled() ... ... spin_unlock(&m->req_lock); // status rewrite p9_client_cb(m->client, req, REQ_STATUS_ERROR) // first remove list_del(&req->req_list); ... spin_lock(&m->req_lock) ... // second remove list_del(&req->req_list); spin_unlock(&m->req_lock) ... Commit 74d6a5d56629 ("9p/trans_fd: Fix concurrency del of req_list in p9_fd_cancelled/p9_read_work") fixes a concurrency issue in the 9p filesystem client where the req_list could be deleted simultaneously by both p9_read_work and p9_fd_cancelled functions, but for the case where req->status equals REQ_STATUS_RCVD. Update the check for req->status in p9_fd_cancelled to skip processing not just received requests, but anything that is not SENT, as whatever changed the state from SENT also removed the request from its list. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller. [updated the check from status == RECV || status == ERROR to status != SENT]

Impact

This vulnerability can cause a general protection fault and kernel memory corruption, potentially leading to denial of service or escalation of privileges due to unstable kernel state. The CVSS vector indicates high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but no known exploits in the wild have been reported.

Summary

CVE-2025-40027 addresses a concurrency bug in the Linux kernel 9p filesystem client where a race condition between the p9_fd_cancelled and p9_read_work functions could cause a double deletion of the same request from the req_list. This occurs when an invalid flush request is sent and later cleaned up concurrently with cancellation of all pending requests. The double removal leads to a general protection fault and potential memory corruption detected by KASAN. The patch modifies the status check in p9_fd_cancelled to skip processing requests not in the SENT state, ensuring the request list is not concurrently modified twice.

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