CVE-2025-40057

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)

Description The Linux kernel contains an issue where an excessive value for max vclocks can lead to a warning in max vclocks store due to kcalloc being unable to handle the allocation. This was reported by syzbot. The issue involves a lack of an upper bound on the max vclocks parameter.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.