DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40287
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.
Risk Scores
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Debian:13 | linux | 6.12.38-1, 6.12.41-1, 6.12.43-1 |
| Debian:14 | linux | 6.13.9-1~exp1, 6.13~rc6-1~exp1, 6.13~rc7-1~exp1 |
Timeline
- Dec 6, 2025 CVE Published
- Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated