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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38179" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-07-04T13:37:07.383Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:00:09.584Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z" 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-2025-38179" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38179.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38179" title: "smb: client: fix max_sge overflow in smb_extract_folioq_to_rdma()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsmb: client: fix max_sge overflow in smb_extract_folioq_to_rdma()\n\nThis fixes the following problem:\n\n[ 749.901015] [ T8673] run fstests cifs/001 at 2025-06-17 09:40:30\n[ 750.346409] [ T9870] ==================================================================\n[ 750.346814] [ T9870] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in smb_set_sge+0x2cc/0x3b0 [cifs]\n[ 750.347330] [ T9870] Write of size 8 at addr ffff888011082890 by task xfs_io/9870\n[ 750.347705] [ T9870]\n[ 750.348077] [ T9870] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 9870 Comm: xfs_io Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.16.0-rc2-metze.02+ #1 PREEMPT(voluntary)\n[ 750.348082] [ T9870] Hardware name: innotek GmbH VirtualBox/VirtualBox, BIOS VirtualBox 12/01/2006\n[ 750.348085] [ T9870] Call Trace:\n[ 750.348086] [ T9870] \u003cTASK\u003e\n[ 750.348088] [ T9870] dump_stack_lvl+0x76/0xa0\n[ 750.348106] [ T9870] print_report+0xd1/0x640\n[ 750.348116] [ T9870] ? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x10/0x10\n[ 750.348120] [ T9870] ? kasan_complete_mode_report_info+0x26/0x210\n[ 750.348124] [ T9870] kasan_report+0xe7/0x130\n[ 750.348128] [ T9870] ? smb_set_sge+0x2cc/0x3b0 [cifs]\n[ 750.348262] [ T9870] ? smb_set_sge+0x2cc/0x3b0 [cifs]\n[ 750.348377] [ T9870] __asan_report_store8_noabort+0x17/0x30\n[ 750.348381] [ T9870] smb_set_sge+0x2cc/0x3b0 [cifs]\n[ 750.348496] [ T9870] smbd_post_send_iter+0x1990/0x3070 [cifs]\n[ 750.348625] [ T9870] ? __pfx_smbd_post_send_iter+0x10/0x10 [cifs]\n[ 750.348741] [ T9870] ? update_stack_state+0x2a0/0x670\n[ 750.348749] [ T9870] ? cifs_flush+0x153/0x320 [cifs]\n[ 750.348870] [ T9870] ? cifs_flush+0x153/0x320 [cifs]\n[ 750.348990] [ T9870] ? update_stack_state+0x2a0/0x670\n[ 750.348995] [ T9870] smbd_send+0x58c/0x9c0 [cifs]\n[ 750.349117] [ T9870] ? __pfx_smbd_send+0x10/0x10 [cifs]\n[ 750.349231] [ T9870] ? unwind_get_return_address+0x65/0xb0\n[ 750.349235] [ T9870] ? __pfx_stack_trace_consume_entry+0x10/0x10\n[ 750.349242] [ T9870] ? arch_stack_walk+0xa7/0x100\n[ 750.349250] [ T9870] ? stack_trace_save+0x92/0xd0\n[ 750.349254] [ T9870] __smb_send_rqst+0x931/0xec0 [cifs]\n[ 750.349374] [ T9870] ? kernel_text_address+0x173/0x190\n[ 750.349379] [ T9870] ? kasan_save_stack+0x39/0x70\n[ 750.349382] [ T9870] ? kasan_save_track+0x18/0x70\n[ 750.349385] [ T9870] ? __kasan_slab_alloc+0x9d/0xa0\n[ 750.349389] [ T9870] ? __pfx___smb_send_rqst+0x10/0x10 [cifs]\n[ 750.349508] [ T9870] ? smb2_mid_entry_alloc+0xb4/0x7e0 [cifs]\n[ 750.349626] [ T9870] ? cifs_call_async+0x277/0xb00 [cifs]\n[ 750.349746] [ T9870] ? cifs_issue_write+0x256/0x610 [cifs]\n[ 750.349867] [ T9870] ? netfs_do_issue_write+0xc2/0x340 [netfs]\n[ 750.349900] [ T9870] ? netfs_advance_write+0x45b/0x1270 [netfs]\n[ 750.349929] [ T9870] ? netfs_write_folio+0xd6c/0x1be0 [netfs]\n[ 750.349958] [ T9870] ? netfs_writepages+0x2e9/0xa80 [netfs]\n[ 750.349987] [ T9870] ? do_writepages+0x21f/0x590\n[ 750.349993] [ T9870] ? filemap_fdatawrite_wbc+0xe1/0x140\n[ 750.349997] [ T9870] ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n[ 750.350002] [ T9870] smb_send_rqst+0x22e/0x2f0 [cifs]\n[ 750.350131] [ T9870] ? __pfx_smb_send_rqst+0x10/0x10 [cifs]\n[ 750.350255] [ T9870] ? local_clock_noinstr+0xe/0xd0\n[ 750.350261] [ T9870] ? kasan_save_alloc_info+0x37/0x60\n[ 750.350268] [ T9870] ? __kasan_check_write+0x14/0x30\n[ 750.350271] [ T9870] ? _raw_spin_lock+0x81/0xf0\n[ 750.350275] [ T9870] ? __pfx__raw_spin_lock+0x10/0x10\n[ 750.350278] [ T9870] ? smb2_setup_async_request+0x293/0x580 [cifs]\n[ 750.350398] [ T9870] cifs_call_async+0x477/0xb00 [cifs]\n[ 750.350518] [ T9870] ? __pfx_smb2_writev_callback+0x10/0x10 [cifs]\n[ 750.350636] [ T9870] ? __pfx_cifs_call_async+0x10/0x10 [cifs]\n[ 750.350756] [ T9870] ? __pfx__raw_spin_lock+0x10/0x10\n[ 750.350760] [ T9870] ? __kasan_check_write+0x14/0x30\n[ 750.350763] [ T98\n---truncated---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c45ebd636c32d33c75e51ce977520ff146bd41a1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8ae7814589d7bd850294ac14ec4c1725dafd42ca"},{"version":"c45ebd636c32d33c75e51ce977520ff146bd41a1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e0ba9b2f188166550296005e64b15e80db82ad8a"},{"version":"c45ebd636c32d33c75e51ce977520ff146bd41a1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a379a8a2a0032e12e7ef397197c9c2ad011588d6"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12"},{"version":"6.12.35","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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