CVE-2025-40331 Affecting kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150600_23_84-default package, versions <1-150600.13.3.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.18% (9th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES156-KERNELLIVEPATCH6401506002384DEFAULT-15110484
  • published27 Jan 2026
  • disclosed26 Jan 2026

Introduced: 26 Jan 2026

CVE-2025-40331  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150600_23_84-default to version 1-150600.13.3.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150600_23_84-default package and not the kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150600_23_84-default package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.6 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

sctp: Prevent TOCTOU out-of-bounds write

For the following path not holding the sock lock,

sctp_diag_dump() -> sctp_for_each_endpoint() -> sctp_ep_dump()

make sure not to exceed bounds in case the address list has grown between buffer allocation (time-of-check) and write (time-of-use).

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1