cve-2025-21646
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-01-19 10:18
Modified
2025-02-02 10:16
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afs: Fix the maximum cell name length The kafs filesystem limits the maximum length of a cell to 256 bytes, but a problem occurs if someone actually does that: kafs tries to create a directory under /proc/net/afs/ with the name of the cell, but that fails with a warning: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 9 at fs/proc/generic.c:405 because procfs limits the maximum filename length to 255. However, the DNS limits the maximum lookup length and, by extension, the maximum cell name, to 255 less two (length count and trailing NUL). Fix this by limiting the maximum acceptable cellname length to 253. This also allows us to be sure we can create the "/afs/.<cell>/" mountpoint too. Further, split the YFS VL record cell name maximum to be the 256 allowed by the protocol and ignore the record retrieved by YFSVL.GetCellName if it exceeds 253.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7673030efe0f8ca1056d3849d61784c6caa052af
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7922b1f058fe24a93730511dd0ae2e1630920096
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7cb3e77e9b4e6ffa325a5559393d3283c9af3d01
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8fd56ad6e7c90ac2bddb0741c6b248c8c5d56ac8
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9340385468d056bb700b8f28df236b81fc86a079
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aabe47cf5ac5e1db2ae0635f189d836f67024904
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