CVE-2025-40057
ptp: Add a upper bound on max_vclocks
Vexday Risk Score
3Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS —EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —
Lifecycle
28 Oct 2025Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ptp: Add a upper bound on max_vclocks
syzbot reported WARNING in max_vclocks_store.
This occurs when the argument max is too large for kcalloc to handle.
Extend the guard to guard against values that are too large for
kcalloc
Affected products
Linux · Linux