CVE-2025-40099

NameCVE-2025-40099
DescriptionIn the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: parse_dfs_referrals: prevent oob on malformed input Malicious SMB server can send invalid reply to FSCTL_DFS_GET_REFERRALS - reply smaller than sizeof(struct get_dfs_referral_rsp) - reply with number of referrals smaller than NumberOfReferrals in the header Processing of such replies will cause oob. Return -EINVAL error on such replies to prevent oob-s.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-4379-1, DSA-6053-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
linux (PTS)bookworm6.1.176-1fixed
bookworm (security)6.1.187-1fixed
trixie (security), trixie6.12.107-1fixed
forky7.1.13-1fixed
sid7.2.6-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
linuxsourcebookworm6.1.158-1DSA-6053-1
linuxsourcetrixie6.12.57-1
linuxsource(unstable)6.17.6-1
linux-6.1sourcebullseye6.1.158-1~deb11u1DLA-4379-1

Notes

https://git.kernel.org/linus/6447b0e355562a1ff748c4a2ffb89aae7e84d2c9 (6.18-rc2)

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