CVE-2025-40083 Affecting kernel-docs-html package, versions <6.12.0-160000.8.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (21st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES1600-KERNELDOCSHTML-14910826
  • published10 Jan 2026
  • disclosed19 Dec 2025

Introduced: 19 Dec 2025

CVE-2025-40083  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:16.0.0 kernel-docs-html to version 6.12.0-160000.8.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-docs-html package and not the kernel-docs-html package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:16.0.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

net/sched: sch_qfq: Fix null-deref in agg_dequeue

To prevent a potential crash in agg_dequeue (net/sched/sch_qfq.c) when cl->qdisc->ops->peek(cl->qdisc) returns NULL, we check the return value before using it, similar to the existing approach in sch_hfsc.c.

To avoid code duplication, the following changes are made:

  1. Changed qdisc_warn_nonwc(include/net/pkt_sched.h) into a static inline function.

  2. Moved qdisc_peek_len from net/sched/sch_hfsc.c to include/net/pkt_sched.h so that sch_qfq can reuse it.

  3. Applied qdisc_peek_len in agg_dequeue to avoid crashing.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1