vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2025-40047: kernel: io_uring/waitid: always prune wait queue entry in io_waitid_wait() (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Oct 28, 2025
Added
Nov 18, 2025
Modified
Feb 4, 2026

Description

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.

Solutions

redhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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