CVE-2025-40099
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
30/10/2025
Last modified:
30/10/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
cifs: parse_dfs_referrals: prevent oob on malformed input<br />
<br />
Malicious SMB server can send invalid reply to FSCTL_DFS_GET_REFERRALS<br />
<br />
- reply smaller than sizeof(struct get_dfs_referral_rsp)<br />
- reply with number of referrals smaller than NumberOfReferrals in the<br />
header<br />
<br />
Processing of such replies will cause oob.<br />
<br />
Return -EINVAL error on such replies to prevent oob-s.
Impact
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/15c73964da9df994302f579ed14ee5fdbce7a332
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6447b0e355562a1ff748c4a2ffb89aae7e84d2c9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8bc4a8d39bac23d8b044fd3e2dbfd965f1d9b058
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb0f2e66e1ac043a5b238f5bcab4f26f3c317039
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cfacc7441f760e4a73cc71b6ff1635261d534657



