CVE-2025-40107 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
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES1600-KERNELDOCSHTML-14911003
  • published10 Jan 2026
  • disclosed19 Dec 2025

Introduced: 19 Dec 2025

CVE-2025-40107  (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:

can: hi311x: fix null pointer dereference when resuming from sleep before interface was enabled

This issue is similar to the vulnerability in the mcp251x driver, which was fixed in commit 03c427147b2d ("can: mcp251x: fix resume from sleep before interface was brought up").

In the hi311x driver, when the device resumes from sleep, the driver schedules priv-&gt;restart_work. However, if the network interface was not previously enabled, the priv-&gt;wq (workqueue) is not allocated and initialized, leading to a null pointer dereference.

To fix this, we move the allocation and initialization of the workqueue from the hi3110_open function to the hi3110_can_probe function. This ensures that the workqueue is properly initialized before it is used during device resume. And added logic to destroy the workqueue in the error handling paths of hi3110_can_probe and in the hi3110_can_remove function to prevent resource leaks.

CVSS Base Scores

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