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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 28, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2025-40080

CVE-2025-40080

Description

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

nbd: restrict sockets to TCP and UDP

Recently, syzbot started to abuse NBD with all kinds of sockets.

Commit cf1b2326b734 ("nbd: verify socket is supported during setup") made sure the socket supported a shutdown() method.

Explicitely accept TCP and UNIX stream sockets.

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