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    "id": "CVE-2025-40138",
    "sourceURL": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40138",
    "idYear": 2025,
    "status": "PUBLISHED",
    "publishedAt": "2025-11-12T10:23:23.912Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-11T21:43:29.612Z",
    "importedAt": "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z",
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      "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"
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      "title": "f2fs: fix to avoid NULL pointer dereference in f2fs_check_quota_consistency()",
      "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nf2fs: fix to avoid NULL pointer dereference in f2fs_check_quota_consistency()\n\nsyzbot reported a f2fs bug as below:\n\nOops: gen[  107.736417][ T5848] Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]\nCPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5848 Comm: syz-executor263 Tainted: G        W           6.17.0-rc1-syzkaller-00014-g0e39a731820a #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)}\nRIP: 0010:strcmp+0x3c/0xc0 lib/string.c:284\nCall Trace:\n <TASK>\n f2fs_check_quota_consistency fs/f2fs/super.c:1188 [inline]\n f2fs_check_opt_consistency+0x1378/0x2c10 fs/f2fs/super.c:1436\n __f2fs_remount fs/f2fs/super.c:2653 [inline]\n f2fs_reconfigure+0x482/0x1770 fs/f2fs/super.c:5297\n reconfigure_super+0x224/0x890 fs/super.c:1077\n do_remount fs/namespace.c:3314 [inline]\n path_mount+0xd18/0xfe0 fs/namespace.c:4112\n do_mount fs/namespace.c:4133 [inline]\n __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4344 [inline]\n __se_sys_mount+0x317/0x410 fs/namespace.c:4321\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n\nThe direct reason is f2fs_check_quota_consistency() may suffer null-ptr-deref\nissue in strcmp().\n\nThe bug can be reproduced w/ below scripts:\nmkfs.f2fs -f /dev/vdb\nmount -t f2fs -o usrquota /dev/vdb /mnt/f2fs\nquotacheck -uc /mnt/f2fs/\numount /mnt/f2fs\nmount -t f2fs -o usrjquota=aquota.user,jqfmt=vfsold /dev/vdb /mnt/f2fs\nmount -t f2fs -o remount,usrjquota=,jqfmt=vfsold /dev/vdb /mnt/f2fs\numount /mnt/f2fs\n\nSo, before old_qname and new_qname comparison, we need to check whether\nthey are all valid pointers, fix it.",
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