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CVE-2025-40192

Revert "ipmi: fix msg stack when IPMI is disconnected"

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Nov 12, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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Description

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

Revert "ipmi: fix msg stack when IPMI is disconnected"

This reverts commit c608966f3f9c2dca596967501d00753282b395fc.

This patch has a subtle bug that can cause the IPMI driver to go into an infinite loop if the BMC misbehaves in a certain way. Apparently certain BMCs do misbehave this way because several reports have come in recently about this.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • c608966f3f9c2dca596967501d00753282b395fc to before f4aab940ae9eb3ba32e5332b35703673f00d7f37Affected
  • c608966f3f9c2dca596967501d00753282b395fc to before b9cc7155e65f6feca51bfedd543b9bd300e2be2bAffected
  • c608966f3f9c2dca596967501d00753282b395fc to before 8cf5c24533b8058910fcb83a25a9cf0306383780Affected
  • c608966f3f9c2dca596967501d00753282b395fc to before 5d09ee1bec870263f4ace439402ea840503b503bAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.2Affected
  • before 6.2Not affected
  • 6.6.113 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.54 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.17.4 through 6.17.*Not affected
  • 6.18 and laterNot affected

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