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Publication date: 2025-10-28

Last updated on: 2025-10-30

Assigner: kernel.org

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vhost: vringh: Fix copy_to_iter return value check The return value of copy_to_iter can't be negative, check whether the copied length is equal to the requested length instead of checking for negative values.

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Published

2025-10-28

Last Modified

2025-10-30

Generated

2026-07-06

AI Q&A

2025-10-28

EPSS Evaluated

2026-07-05

NVD

CVE-2025-40056

Affected Vendors & Products

Vendor	Product	Version / Range
linux	linux_kernel	*

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CWE ID	Description
CWE-UNKNOWN

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Executive Summary

This vulnerability in the Linux kernel relates to the vhost vringh component where the function copy_to_iter's return value was incorrectly checked. The code was checking if the return value was negative, but since copy_to_iter cannot return negative values, the correct check should be whether the copied length equals the requested length. This fix addresses that logic error.

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