CVE-2025-40047

Updated on 28 Oct 2025

Severity

Awaiting Analysis

Details

CVSS score
8.6

Overview

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

io_uring/waitid: always prune wait queue entry in io_waitid_wait()

For a successful return, always remove our entry from the wait queue entry list. Previously this was skipped if a cancelation was in progress, but this can race with another invocation of the wait queue entry callback.

Details

Affected product:
AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , TuxCare 9.6 ESU
Affected packages:
kernel @ 5.14.0 (+1 more)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

io_uring/waitid: always prune wait queue entry in io_waitid_wait()

For a successful return, always remove our entry from the wait queue entry list. Previously this was skipped if a cancelation was in progress, but this can race with another invocation of the wait queue entry callback.

Fixes