# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-40119"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-11-12T10:23:18.449Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:43:01.083Z"
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-2025-40119"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40119.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40119"
title: "ext4: fix potential null deref in ext4_mb_init()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: fix potential null deref in ext4_mb_init()\n\nIn ext4_mb_init(), ext4_mb_avg_fragment_size_destroy() may be called\nwhen sbi-\u003es_mb_avg_fragment_size remains uninitialized (e.g., if groupinfo\nslab cache allocation fails). Since ext4_mb_avg_fragment_size_destroy()\nlacks null pointer checking, this leads to a null pointer dereference.\n\n==================================================================\nEXT4-fs: no memory for groupinfo slab cache\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000\nPGD 0 P4D 0\nOops: Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP PTI\nCPU:2 UID: 0 PID: 87 Comm:mount Not tainted 6.17.0-rc2 #1134 PREEMPT(none)\nRIP: 0010:_raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x1b/0x40\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n xa_destroy+0x61/0x130\n ext4_mb_init+0x483/0x540\n __ext4_fill_super+0x116d/0x17b0\n ext4_fill_super+0xd3/0x280\n get_tree_bdev_flags+0x132/0x1d0\n vfs_get_tree+0x29/0xd0\n do_new_mount+0x197/0x300\n __x64_sys_mount+0x116/0x150\n do_syscall_64+0x50/0x1c0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n==================================================================\n\nTherefore, add necessary null check to ext4_mb_avg_fragment_size_destroy()\nto prevent this issue. The same fix is also applied to\next4_mb_largest_free_orders_destroy()."
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