# 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-2025-40198"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-11-12T21:56:33.220Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T22:02:40.274Z"
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-2025-40198"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40198.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40198"
title: "ext4: avoid potential buffer over-read in parse_apply_sb_mount_options()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: avoid potential buffer over-read in parse_apply_sb_mount_options()\n\nUnlike other strings in the ext4 superblock, we rely on tune2fs to\nmake sure s_mount_opts is NUL terminated.  Harden\nparse_apply_sb_mount_options() by treating s_mount_opts as a potential\n__nonstring."
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