CVE-2025-40287 (GCVE-0-2025-40287)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-06 21:51 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:46
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
exfat: fix improper check of dentry.stream.valid_size
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
exfat: fix improper check of dentry.stream.valid_size
We found an infinite loop bug in the exFAT file system that can lead to a
Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition. When a dentry in an exFAT filesystem is
malformed, the following system calls — SYS_openat, SYS_ftruncate, and
SYS_pwrite64 — can cause the kernel to hang.
Root cause analysis shows that the size validation code in exfat_find()
does not check whether dentry.stream.valid_size is negative. As a result,
the system calls mentioned above can succeed and eventually trigger the DoS
issue.
This patch adds a check for negative dentry.stream.valid_size to prevent
this vulnerability.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
11a347fb6cef62ce47e84b97c45f2b2497c7593b , < 6c627bcc1896ba62ec793d0c00da74f3c93ce3ad
(git)
Affected: 11a347fb6cef62ce47e84b97c45f2b2497c7593b , < 204b1b02ee018ba52ad2ece21fe3a8643d66a1b2 (git) Affected: 11a347fb6cef62ce47e84b97c45f2b2497c7593b , < 82ebecdc74ff555daf70b811d854b1f32a296bea (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
6.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.8 (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.59 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.17.9 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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