CVE-2025-40201

Ecosystem	Package	Version

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-40201

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kernel/sys.c: fix the racy usage of task_lock(tsk->group_leader) in sys_prlimit64() paths The usage of task_lock(tsk->group_leader) in sys_prlimit64()->do_prlimit() path is very broken. sys_prlimit64() does get_task_struct(tsk) but this only protects task_struct itself. If tsk != current and tsk is not a leader, this process can exit/exec and task_lock(tsk->group_leader) may use the already freed task_struct. Another problem is that sys_prlimit64() can race with mt-exec which changes ->group_leader. In this case do_prlimit() may take the wrong lock, or (worse) ->group_leader may change between task_lock() and task_unlock(). Change sys_prlimit64() to take tasklist_lock when necessary. This is not nice, but I don't see a better fix for -stable.

Published Nov 14, 2025

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025111246-CVE-2025-40201-b8fe@gregkh/

CVSS ScoreMedium

4.9


rpm	kernel	6.11.0-0.rc5.23.el10
rpm	kernel	6.12.0-124.13.1.el10_1
rpm	kernel	6.12.0-124.16.1.el10_1
rpm	kernel	6.12.0-124.20.1.el10_1
rpm	kernel	6.12.0-124.21.1.el10_1
rpm	kernel	6.12.0-124.27.1.el10_1
rpm	kernel	6.12.0-124.28.1.el10_1
rpm	kernel	6.12.0-124.29.1.el10_1
rpm	kernel	6.12.0-124.31.1.el10_1
rpm	kernel	6.12.0-124.35.1.el10_1
rpm	kernel	6.12.0-124.38.1.el10_1
rpm	kernel	6.12.0-124.39.1.el10_1
rpm	kernel	6.12.0-124.40.1.el10_1
rpm	kernel	6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1
rpm	kernel	6.12.0-55.19.1.0.1.el10_0
rpm	kernel	6.12.0-55.20.1.0.1.el10_0
rpm	kernel	6.12.0-55.21.1.0.1.el10_0
rpm	kernel	6.12.0-55.22.1.0.1.el10_0
rpm	kernel	6.12.0-55.24.1.0.1.el10_0
rpm	kernel	6.12.0-55.27.1.0.1.el10_0
rpm	kernel	6.12.0-55.28.1.0.1.el10_0
rpm	kernel	6.12.0-55.29.1.0.1.el10_0
rpm	kernel	6.12.0-55.30.1.0.1.el10_0
rpm	kernel	6.12.0-55.31.1.0.1.el10_0
rpm	kernel	6.12.0-55.32.1.0.1.el10_0
rpm	kernel	6.12.0-55.33.1.0.1.el10_0
rpm	kernel	6.12.0-55.34.1.0.1.el10_0
rpm	kernel	6.12.0-55.37.1.0.1.el10_0
rpm	kernel	6.12.0-55.38.1.0.1.el10_0
rpm	kernel	6.12.0-55.39.1.0.1.el10_0
rpm	kernel	6.12.0-55.40.1.0.1.el10_0
rpm	kernel	6.12.0-55.41.1.0.1.el10_0
rpm	kernel	6.12.0-55.42.1.0.1.el10_0
rpm	kernel	6.12.0-55.43.1.0.1.el10_0
rpm	kernel	6.12.0-55.9.1.0.1.el10_0

Ecosystem	Package	Version

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