CVE-2025-40287 (GCVE-0-2025-40287)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-06 21:51
Modified
2025-12-06 21:51
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Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
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