vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2025-40024): linux vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Oct 24, 2025
Added
Nov 4, 2025
Modified
Jan 14, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vhost: Take a reference on the task in struct vhost_task. vhost_task_create() creates a task and keeps a reference to its task_struct. That task may exit early via a signal and its task_struct will be released. A pending vhost_task_wake() will then attempt to wake the task and access a task_struct which is no longer there. Acquire a reference on the task_struct while creating the thread and release the reference while the struct vhost_task itself is removed. If the task exits early due to a signal, then the vhost_task_wake() will still access a valid task_struct. The wake is safe and will be skipped in this case.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-linuxubuntu-upgrade-linux-awsubuntu-upgrade-linux-azureubuntu-upgrade-linux-gcpubuntu-upgrade-linux-oracleubuntu-upgrade-linux-raspiubuntu-upgrade-linux-realtimeubuntu-upgrade-linux-riscv
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