🛡️ CVE-2025-40241 — kernel

🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
7.8
CVSS Score
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Description

erofs: fix crafted invalid cases for encoded extents

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

erofs: fix crafted invalid cases for encoded extents

Robert recently reported two corrupted images that can cause system

crashes, which are related to the new encoded extents introduced

in Linux 6.15:

  • The first one [1] has plen != 0 (e.g. plen == 0x2000000) but

(plen & Z_EROFS_EXTENT_PLEN_MASK) == 0. It is used to represent

special extents such as sparse extents (!EROFS_MAP_MAPPED), but

previously only plen == 0 was handled;

  • The second one [2] has pa 0xffffffffffdcffed and plen 0xb4000,

then "cur [0xfffffffffffff000] += bvec.bv_len [0x1000]" in

"} while ((cur += bvec.bv_len) < end);" wraps around, causing an

out-of-bound access of pcl->compressed_bvecs[] in

z_erofs_submit_queue(). EROFS only supports 48-bit physical block

addresses (up to 1EiB for 4k blocks), so add a sanity check to

enforce this.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Affected software

CVE-2025-40241 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • kernel (from 6.15.0 up to 6.17.6)
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 4 December 2025 and last revised on 6 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
github.com (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
git.kernel.org (Package)

CVE-2025-40241 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity High
CVSS Score 7.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-12-04
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-08-06
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kernel 6.15.0 6.17.6
unknown

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