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CVE-2025-40363

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CVE-2025-40363

Published: Dec 16, 2025

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ipv6: fix field-spanning memcpy warning in AH output Fix field-spanning memcpy warnings in ah6_output() and ah6_output_done() where extension headers are copied to/from IPv6 address fields, triggering fortify-string warnings about writes beyond the 16-byte address fields. memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 40) of single field "&top_iph->saddr" at net/ipv6/ah6.c:439 (size 16) WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 8838 at net/ipv6/ah6.c:439 ah6_output+0xe7e/0x14e0 net/ipv6/ah6.c:439 The warnings are false positives as the extension headers are intentionally placed after the IPv6 header in memory. Fix by properly copying addresses and extension headers separately, and introduce helper functions to avoid code duplication.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < 2da805a61ef5272a2773775ce14c3650adb84248
affected
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < 9bf27de51bd6db5ff827780ec0eba55de230ba45
affected
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < 0bf756ae1e69fec5e6332c37830488315d6d771b
affected
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < 75b16b2755e12999ad850756ddfb88ad4bfc7186
affected
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < f28dde240160f3c48a50d641d210ed6a3b9596ed

+3 more versions

Linux

Linux

affected
2.6.12
unaffected
0 - < 2.6.12
unaffected
5.4.302 - <= 5.4.*
unaffected
5.10.247 - <= 5.10.*
unaffected
5.15.197 - <= 5.15.*

+5 more versions

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