CVE-2025-40160 | xen/events: Return -EEXIST for bound VIRQs

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xen/events: Return -EEXIST for bound VIRQs Change find_virq() to return -EEXIST when a VIRQ is bound to a different CPU than the one passed in. With that, remove the BUG_ON() from bind_virq_to_irq() to propogate the error upwards. Some VIRQs are per-cpu, but others are per-domain or global. Those must be bound to CPU0 and can then migrate elsewhere. The lookup for per-domain and global will probably fail when migrated off CPU 0, especially when the current CPU is tracked. This now returns -EEXIST instead of BUG_ON(). A second call to bind a per-domain or global VIRQ is not expected, but make it non-fatal to avoid trying to look up the irq, since we don't know which per_cpu(virq_to_irq) it will be in.

Published: 2025-11-12 Last update: 2026-04-15 Assigner: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2025-40160 is rated Low Risk (3.3/100): low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.02%). 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-2025-40160

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# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-11-12 0.02%

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Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-40160

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-40160

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debian not yet assigned CVE-2025-40160 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (linux), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 3, open 2. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-40160
redhat medium https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-40160
suse low CVE-2025-40160 severity low: SUSE including 420 source package names (13.2-9.1:libsystemd0-254.23-1.1, 13.2-9.1:libudev1-254.23-1.1, …), 835 product×package rows across 135 product lines (Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/baremetal-os-container, Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/base-os-container, … (135 product lines)): Fixed 499, Known Affected 231, Known Not Affected 80, First Fixed 25. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-40160/
ubuntu medium CVE-2025-40160 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 181, released 127, needed 82, not-affected 3, pending 2. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-40160

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-40160

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References for CVE-2025-40160

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