# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-21994"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-04-02T14:00:37.407Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:55:53.957Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:29.455Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21994"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21994.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21994"
title: "ksmbd: fix incorrect validation for num_aces field of smb_acl"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nksmbd: fix incorrect validation for num_aces field of smb_acl\n\nparse_dcal() validate num_aces to allocate posix_ace_state_array.\n\nif (num_aces \u003e ULONG_MAX / sizeof(struct smb_ace *))\n\nIt is an incorrect validation that we can create an array of size ULONG_MAX.\nsmb_acl has -\u003esize field to calculate actual number of aces in request buffer\nsize. Use this to check invalid num_aces."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c3a3484d9d31b27a3db0fab91fcf191132d65236"},{"version":"0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9c4e202abff45f8eac17989e549fc7a75095f675"},{"version":"0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d0f87370622a853b57e851f7d5a5452b72300f19"},{"version":"0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a4cb17797a5d241f1e509cb5b46ed95a80c2f5fd"},{"version":"0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f6a6721802ac2f12f4c1bbe839a4c229b61866f2"},{"version":"0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1b8b67f3c5e5169535e26efedd3e422172e2db64"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15"},{"version":"5.15.180","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.132","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.85","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.21","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.13.*"},{"version":"6.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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