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DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40205

DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40205 PUBLISHED CVSS 9.300000190734863 CRITICAL

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: avoid potential out-of-bounds in btrfs_encode_fh() The function btrfs_encode_fh() does not properly account for the three cases it handles. Before writing to the file handle (fh), the function only returns to the user BTRFS_FID_SIZE_NON_CONNECTABLE (5 dwords, 20 bytes) or BTRFS_FID_SIZE_CONNECTABLE (8 dwords, 32 bytes). However, when a parent exists and the root ID of the parent and the inode are different, the function writes BTRFS_FID_SIZE_CONNECTABLE_ROOT (10 dwords, 40 bytes). If *max_len is not large enough, this write goes out of bounds because BTRFS_FID_SIZE_CONNECTABLE_ROOT is greater than BTRFS_FID_SIZE_CONNECTABLE originally returned. This results in an 8-byte out-of-bounds write at fid->parent_root_objectid = parent_root_id. A previous attempt to fix this issue was made but was lost. https://lore.kernel.org/all/4CADAEEC020000780001B32C@vpn.id2.novell.com/ Although this issue does not seem to be easily triggerable, it is a potential memory corruption bug that should be fixed. This patch resolves the issue by ensuring the function returns the appropriate size for all three cases and validates that *max_len is large enough before writing any data.

Risk Scores

CVSS 4.0
9.300000190734863
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:13linux0, 6.12.38-1, 6.12.41-1
Debian:12linux6.1.85-1, 6.1.90-1, 6.1.94-1~bpo11+1
Debian:11linux-6.16.1.148-1~deb11u1, 6.1.147-1~deb11u1, 6.1.129-1~deb11u1
Debian:14linux6.14.5-1, 6.12.41-1, 6.12.43-1
Debian:11linux5.10.218-1, 5.10.221-1, 5.10.223-1

Exploit Intelligence

Timeline

  • Nov 12, 2025 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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