CVE-2025-40081
High
perf: arm_spe: Prevent overflow in PERF_IDX2OFF()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf: arm_spe: Prevent overflow in PERF_IDX2OFF() Cast nr_pages to unsigned long to avoid overflow when handling large AUX buffer sizes (>= 2 GiB).
Exploit probability
0.1%
Published
October 28, 2025
Required by
Not available
Last source change
August 12, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2025-40081
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf: arm_spe: Prevent overflow in PERF_IDX2OFF() Cast nr_pages to unsigned long to avoid overflow when handling large AUX buffer sizes (>= 2 GiB).
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1a19ba8e1f4ff24ece8ca69b79df8442c431db90
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/379cae2cb982f571cda9493ac573ab71125fd299
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d01f2b81568289443d22f1e13a363f829de6343
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/656e9a5d69acdd1b20462f4a33378b90ddcb9626
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7500384d3c9587593d75ded3b006835e7aa73ef8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c045d4501f7f70724a3bbb561f4f22d292bbfe6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a29fea30dd93da16652930162b177941abd8c75e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e516cfd19b0f4c774a57b17fb43a7f41991f0735
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/40xxx/CVE-2025-40081.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-40081