🛡️ CVE-2025-40351 — kernel

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
N/A
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

hfsplus: fix KMSAN uninit-value issue in hfsplus_delete_cat()

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

hfsplus: fix KMSAN uninit-value issue in hfsplus_delete_cat()

The syzbot reported issue in hfsplus_delete_cat():

[ 70.682285][ T9333] =====================================================

[ 70.682943][ T9333] BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in hfsplus_subfolders_dec+0x1d7/0x220

[ 70.683640][ T9333] hfsplus_subfolders_dec+0x1d7/0x220

[ 70.684141][ T9333] hfsplus_delete_cat+0x105d/0x12b0

[ 70.684621][ T9333] hfsplus_rmdir+0x13d/0x310

[ 70.685048][ T9333] vfs_rmdir+0x5ba/0x810

[ 70.685447][ T9333] do_rmdir+0x964/0xea0

[ 70.685833][ T9333] __x64_sys_rmdir+0x71/0xb0

[ 70.686260][ T9333] x64_sys_call+0xcd8/0x3cf0

[ 70.686695][ T9333] do_syscall_64+0xd9/0x1d0

[ 70.687119][ T9333] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

[ 70.687646][ T9333]

[ 70.687856][ T9333] Uninit was stored to memory at:

[ 70.688311][ T9333] hfsplus_subfolders_inc+0x1c2/0x1d0

[ 70.688779][ T9333] hfsplus_create_cat+0x148e/0x1800

[ 70.689231][ T9333] hfsplus_mknod+0x27f/0x600

[ 70.689730][ T9333] hfsplus_mkdir+0x5a/0x70

[ 70.690146][ T9333] vfs_mkdir+0x483/0x7a0

[ 70.690545][ T9333] do_mkdirat+0x3f2/0xd30

[ 70.690944][ T9333] __x64_sys_mkdir+0x9a/0xf0

[ 70.691380][ T9333] x64_sys_call+0x2f89/0x3cf0

[ 70.691816][ T9333] do_syscall_64+0xd9/0x1d0

[ 70.692229][ T9333] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

[ 70.692773][ T9333]

[ 70.692990][ T9333] Uninit was stored to memory at:

[ 70.693469][ T9333] hfsplus_subfolders_inc+0x1c2/0x1d0

[ 70.693960][ T9333] hfsplus_create_cat+0x148e/0x1800

[ 70.694438][ T9333] hfsplus_fill_super+0x21c1/0x2700

[ 70.694911][ T9333] mount_bdev+0x37b/0x530

[ 70.695320][ T9333] hfsplus_mount+0x4d/0x60

[ 70.695729][ T9333] legacy_get_tree+0x113/0x2c0

[ 70.696167][ T9333] vfs_get_tree+0xb3/0x5c0

[ 70.696588][ T9333] do_new_mount+0x73e/0x1630

[ 70.697013][ T9333] path_mount+0x6e3/0x1eb0

[ 70.697425][ T9333] __se_sys_mount+0x733/0x830

[ 70.697857][ T9333] __x64_sys_mount+0xe4/0x150

[ 70.698269][ T9333] x64_sys_call+0x2691/0x3cf0

[ 70.698704][ T9333] do_syscall_64+0xd9/0x1d0

[ 70.699117][ T9333] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

[ 70.699730][ T9333]

[ 70.699946][ T9333] Uninit was created at:

[ 70.700378][ T9333] __alloc_pages_noprof+0x714/0xe60

[ 70.700843][ T9333] alloc_pages_mpol_noprof+0x2a2/0x9b0

[ 70.701331][ T9333] alloc_pages_noprof+0xf8/0x1f0

[ 70.701774][ T9333] allocate_slab+0x30e/0x1390

[ 70.702194][ T9333] ___slab_alloc+0x1049/0x33a0

[ 70.702635][ T9333] kmem_cache_alloc_lru_noprof+0x5ce/0xb20

[ 70.703153][ T9333] hfsplus_alloc_inode+0x5a/0xd0

[ 70.703598][ T9333] alloc_inode+0x82/0x490

[ 70.703984][ T9333] iget_locked+0x22e/0x1320

[ 70.704428][ T9333] hfsplus_iget+0x5c/0xba0

[ 70.704827][ T9333] hfsplus_btree_open+0x135/0x1dd0

[ 70.705291][ T9333] hfsplus_fill_super+0x1132/0x2700

[ 70.705776][ T9333] mount_bdev+0x37b/0x530

[ 70.706171][ T9333] hfsplus_mount+0x4d/0x60

[ 70.706579][ T9333] legacy_get_tree+0x113/0x2c0

[ 70.707019][ T9333] vfs_get_tree+0xb3/0x5c0

[ 70.707444][ T9333] do_new_mount+0x73e/0x1630

[ 70.707865][ T9333] path_mount+0x6e3/0x1eb0

[ 70.708270][ T9333] __se_sys_mount+0x733/0x830

[ 70.708711][ T9333] __x64_sys_mount+0xe4/0x150

[ 70.709158][ T9333] x64_sys_call+0x2691/0x3cf0

[ 70.709630][ T9333] do_syscall_64+0xd9/0x1d0

[ 70.710053][ T9333] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

[ 70.710611][ T9333]

[ 70.710842][ T9333] CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 9333 Comm: repro Not tainted 6.12.0-rc6-dirty #17

[ 70.711568][ T9333] Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014

[ 70.712490][ T9333] =====================================================

[ 70.713085][ T9333] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint

[ 70.713618][ T9333] Kernel panic - not syncing: kmsan.panic set ...

[ 70.714159][ T9333]

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Affected software

CVE-2025-40351 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • kernel (from 6.13.0 up to 6.17.6)
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 16 December 2025 and last revised on 15 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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

CVE-2025-40351 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-12-16
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-07-15
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kernel 6.13.0 6.17.6
unknown

References

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