Improper Validation of Specified Type of Input The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package perf  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS10-PERF-14199545
  • published6 Dec 2025
  • disclosed4 Dec 2025

Introduced: 4 Dec 2025

CVE-2025-40217  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1287  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perf package and not the perf package as distributed by Centos.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

pidfs: validate extensible ioctls

Validate extensible ioctls stricter than we do now.