CVE-2025-40117 (GCVE-0-2025-40117)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-11-12 10:23
Modified
2026-08-05 12:07
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: misc: pci_endpoint_test: Fix array underflow in pci_endpoint_test_ioctl() Commit eefb83790a0d ("misc: pci_endpoint_test: Add doorbell test case") added NO_BAR (-1) to the pci_barno enum which, in practical terms, changes the enum from an unsigned int to a signed int. If the user passes a negative number in pci_endpoint_test_ioctl() then it results in an array underflow in pci_endpoint_test_bar().
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Linux Linux Version: eefb83790a0dda112d1755e4f5e213738d717e76
Version: eefb83790a0dda112d1755e4f5e213738d717e76
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