CVE-2025-21962

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Publication date:

01/04/2025

Last modified:

03/11/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: Fix integer overflow while processing closetimeo mount option User-provided mount parameter closetimeo of type u32 is intended to have an upper limit, but before it is validated, the value is converted from seconds to jiffies which can lead to an integer overflow. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

5.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.15.107 (including)	5.15.180 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.0 (including)	6.1.132 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.2 (including)	6.6.84 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.7 (including)	6.12.20 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.13 (including)	6.13.8 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14:rc1::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14:rc2::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14:rc3::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14:rc4::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14:rc5::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14:rc6::::::

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2025-21962

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools