CVE-2025-40277: Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/vmwgfx: Validate command header size against SVGA_CMD_MAX_DATASIZE This data originates from userspace and is used in buffer offset calculations which could potentially overflow causing an out-of-bounds access.

Affected products

• Linux Linux: from 4.3, before 5.4.302 (fixed in 5.4.302); from 5.5, before 5.10.247 (fixed in 5.10.247); from 5.11, before 5.15.197 (fixed in 5.15.197); from 5.16, before 6.1.159 (fixed in 6.1.159); from 6.2, before 6.6.117 (fixed in 6.6.117); from 6.7, before 6.12.59 (fixed in 6.12.59); …

Published 2025-12-06. Last modified 2026-07-30.