# CVE-2025-40031: tee: fix register\_shm\_helper()

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-10-28 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 6.8

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tee: fix register_shm_helper() In register_shm_helper(), fix incorrect error handling for a call to iov_iter_extract_pages(). A case is missing for when iov_iter_extract_pages() only got some pages and return a number larger than 0, but not the requested amount. This fixes a possible NULL pointer dereference following a bad input from ioctl(TEE_IOC_SHM_REGISTER) where parts of the buffer isn't mapped.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9338093db954918558677a468d32e77041c65167
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a7874ab814ce12003c46a92f7afc9b035c8e8e9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d5cf5b37064b1699d946e8b7ab4ac7d7d101814c

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