CVE-2025-40287
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CVE-2025-40287 is a vulnerability of currently unknown severity. 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. EPSS estimates a 0.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Description
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.
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Affected Software
Source: CNA advisory (CVE.org). NVD analysis pending.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | >= 11a347fb6cef62ce47e84b97c45f2b2497c7593b, < 6c627bcc1896ba62ec793d0c00da74f3c93ce3ad; >= 11a347fb6cef62ce47e84b97c45f2b2497c7593b, < 204b1b02ee018ba52ad2ece21fe3a8643d66a1b2; >= 11a347fb6cef62ce47e84b97c45f2b2497c7593b, < 82ebecdc74ff555daf70b811d854b1f32a296bea |
| Linux | Linux | 6.8 |
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