# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-39998"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-15T07:58:22.354Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T22:02:35.977Z"
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-2025-39998"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39998.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39998"
title: "scsi: target: target_core_configfs: Add length check to avoid buffer overflow"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: target: target_core_configfs: Add length check to avoid buffer overflow\n\nA buffer overflow arises from the usage of snprintf to write into the\nbuffer \"buf\" in target_lu_gp_members_show function located in\n/drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c. This buffer is allocated with\nsize LU_GROUP_NAME_BUF (256 bytes).\n\nsnprintf(...) formats multiple strings into buf with the HBA name\n(hba-\u003ehba_group.cg_item), a slash character, a devicename (dev-\u003e\ndev_group.cg_item) and a newline character, the total formatted string\nlength may exceed the buffer size of 256 bytes.\n\nSince snprintf() returns the total number of bytes that would have been\nwritten (the length of %s/%sn ), this value may exceed the buffer length\n(256 bytes) passed to memcpy(), this will ultimately cause function\nmemcpy reporting a buffer overflow error.\n\nAn additional check of the return value of snprintf() can avoid this\nbuffer overflow."
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