CVE-2025-40057 | ptp: Add a upper bound on max_vclocks

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

Published: 2025-10-28 Last update: 2026-04-15 Assigner: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2025-40057 is rated Low Risk (7/100): low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.17%). Mandatory action: Low composite risk—no urgent action required; patch on your normal maintenance cycle and revisit priority if CVSS or EPSS increases.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-40057

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.02% 0.17% +0.15%
2 2025-10-28 0.02%

Full EPSS history (2 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-40057

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

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Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-40057

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-40057

vendor priority summary link
debian unimportant CVE-2025-40057 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (linux), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 4, open 1. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-40057
redhat low https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-40057
suse medium CVE-2025-40057 severity moderate: SUSE including 27 source package names (cluster-md-kmp-default, dlm-kmp-default, …), 145 product×package rows across 31 product lines (SLES-LTSS-TERADATA 15 SP2, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP3, … (31 product lines)): Known Not Affected 101, Will Not Fix 38, Fixed 6. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-40057/
ubuntu medium CVE-2025-40057 medium priority: Ubuntu including 157 source packages (linux, linux-allwinner-5.19, …), 1405 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 1010, ignored 177, released 127, not-affected 49, needed 40, pending 2. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-40057

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-40057

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
No affected products in dataset.

References for CVE-2025-40057

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