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Message-ID: <2025111246-CVE-2025-40198-7a99@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:01:01 -0500
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-40198: ext4: avoid potential buffer over-read in parse_apply_sb_mount_options()
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Description
===========
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: avoid potential buffer over-read in parse_apply_sb_mount_options()
Unlike other strings in the ext4 superblock, we rely on tune2fs to
make sure s_mount_opts is NUL terminated. Harden
parse_apply_sb_mount_options() by treating s_mount_opts as a potential
__nonstring.
The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-40198 to this issue.
Affected and fixed versions
===========================
Issue introduced in 2.6.36 with commit 8b67f04ab9de5d8f3a71aef72bf02c995a506db5 and fixed in 5.4.301 with commit 7bf46ff83a0ef11836e38ebd72cdc5107209342d
Issue introduced in 2.6.36 with commit 8b67f04ab9de5d8f3a71aef72bf02c995a506db5 and fixed in 5.10.246 with commit b2bac84fde28fb6a88817b8b761abda17a1d300b
Issue introduced in 2.6.36 with commit 8b67f04ab9de5d8f3a71aef72bf02c995a506db5 and fixed in 6.1.158 with commit e651294218d2684302ee5ed95ccf381646f3e5b4
Issue introduced in 2.6.36 with commit 8b67f04ab9de5d8f3a71aef72bf02c995a506db5 and fixed in 6.6.114 with commit 01829af7656b56d83682b3491265d583d502e502
Issue introduced in 2.6.36 with commit 8b67f04ab9de5d8f3a71aef72bf02c995a506db5 and fixed in 6.12.54 with commit 2a0cf438320cdb783e0378570744c0ef0d83e934
Issue introduced in 2.6.36 with commit 8b67f04ab9de5d8f3a71aef72bf02c995a506db5 and fixed in 6.17.4 with commit a6e94557cd05adc82fae0400f6e17745563e5412
Issue introduced in 2.6.36 with commit 8b67f04ab9de5d8f3a71aef72bf02c995a506db5 and fixed in 6.18-rc1 with commit 8ecb790ea8c3fc69e77bace57f14cf0d7c177bd8
Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.
Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions. The official CVE entry at
https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2025-40198
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.
Affected files
==============
The file(s) affected by this issue are:
fs/ext4/super.c
Mitigation
==========
The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes. Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release. Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all. If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7bf46ff83a0ef11836e38ebd72cdc5107209342d
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b2bac84fde28fb6a88817b8b761abda17a1d300b
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e651294218d2684302ee5ed95ccf381646f3e5b4
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01829af7656b56d83682b3491265d583d502e502
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a0cf438320cdb783e0378570744c0ef0d83e934
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6e94557cd05adc82fae0400f6e17745563e5412
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ecb790ea8c3fc69e77bace57f14cf0d7c177bd8
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