net: nfc: nci: Add parameter validation for packet data
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Adjacent network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: nfc: nci: Add parameter validation for packet data Syzbot reported an uninitialized value bug in nci_init_req, which was introduced by commit 5aca7966d2a7 ("Merge tag 'perf-tools-fixes-for-v6.17-2025-09-16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools"). This bug arises due to very limited and poor input validation that was done at nic_valid_size(). This validation only validates the skb->len (directly reflects size provided at the userspace interface) with the length provided in the buffer itself (interpreted as NCI_HEADER). This leads to the processing of memory content at the address assuming the correct layout per what opcode requires there. This leads to the accesses to buffer of `skb_buff->data` which is not assigned anything yet. Following the same silent drop of packets of invalid sizes at `nic_valid_size()`, add validation of the data in the respective handlers and return error values in case of failure. Release the skb if error values are returned from handlers in `nci_nft_packet` and effectively do a silent drop Possible TODO: because we silently drop the packets, the call to `nci_request` will be waiting for completion of request and will face timeouts. These timeouts can get excessively logged in the dmesg. A proper handling of them may require to export `nci_request_cancel` (or propagate error handling from the nft packets handlers).
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 5.15.195, 6.1.156, 6.6.112, 6.12.53, 6.17.3, 6.18
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Low. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 5 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-40043
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-rwhf-69pj-m4jv
- 2026-11-07 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
References
Other 6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8fcc7315a10a84264e55bb65ede10f0af20a983f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bfdda0123dde406dbff62e7e9136037e97998a15
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ba68bea1e356f466ad29449938bea12f5f3711f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/74837bca0748763a77f77db47a0bdbe63b347628
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c395d1e548cc68e84584ffa2e3ca9796a78bf7b9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c328f54741bd5465ca1dc717c84c04242fac2e1
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Sources
- CVE-2025-40043 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-40043 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-rwhf-69pj-m4jv · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2025-40043 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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