CVE-2025-40314

Updated on 08 Dec 2025

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5

Overview

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: cdns3: gadget: Use-after-free during failed initialization and exit of cdnsp gadget In the __cdnsp_gadget_init() and cdnsp_gadget_exit() functions, the gadget structure (pdev->gadget) was freed before its endpoints. The endpoints are linked via the ep_list in the gadget structure. Freeing the gadget first leaves dangling pointers in the endpoint list. When the endpoints are subsequently freed, this results in a use-after-free. Fix: By separating the usb_del_gadget_udc() operation into distinct “del” and “put” steps, cdnsp_gadget_free_endpoints() can be executed prior to the final release of the gadget structure with usb_put_gadget(). A patch similar to bb9c74a5bd14(“usb: dwc3: gadget: Free gadget structure only after freeing endpoints”).

Details

KernelCare state

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.

Operating system Status Covered kernels
Debian 12 Planned
Debian 13 Will Not Fix
Ubuntu 22.04 Planned
Ubuntu 22.04 AWS Planned
Ubuntu 24.04 Planned
Ubuntu 24.04 AWS Planned