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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-40237" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-12-04T15:31:27.325Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-23T16:01:45.934Z" 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-2025-40237" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40237.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40237" title: "fs/notify: call exportfs_encode_fid with s_umount" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfs/notify: call exportfs_encode_fid with s_umount\n\nCalling intotify_show_fdinfo() on fd watching an overlayfs inode, while\nthe overlayfs is being unmounted, can lead to dereferencing NULL ptr.\n\nThis issue was found by syzkaller.\n\nRace Condition Diagram:\n\nThread 1 Thread 2\n-------- --------\n\ngeneric_shutdown_super()\n shrink_dcache_for_umount\n sb-\u003es_root = NULL\n\n |\n | vfs_read()\n | inotify_fdinfo()\n | * inode get from mark *\n | show_mark_fhandle(m, inode)\n | exportfs_encode_fid(inode, ..)\n | ovl_encode_fh(inode, ..)\n | ovl_check_encode_origin(inode)\n | * deref i_sb-\u003es_root *\n |\n |\n v\n fsnotify_sb_delete(sb)\n\nWhich then leads to:\n\n[ 32.133461] Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000006: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC KASAN NOPTI\n[ 32.134438] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000030-0x0000000000000037]\n[ 32.135032] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 4468 Comm: systemd-coredum Not tainted 6.17.0-rc6 #22 PREEMPT(none)\n\n\u003csnip registers, unreliable trace\u003e\n\n[ 32.143353] Call Trace:\n[ 32.143732] ovl_encode_fh+0xd5/0x170\n[ 32.144031] exportfs_encode_inode_fh+0x12f/0x300\n[ 32.144425] show_mark_fhandle+0xbe/0x1f0\n[ 32.145805] inotify_fdinfo+0x226/0x2d0\n[ 32.146442] inotify_show_fdinfo+0x1c5/0x350\n[ 32.147168] seq_show+0x530/0x6f0\n[ 32.147449] seq_read_iter+0x503/0x12a0\n[ 32.148419] seq_read+0x31f/0x410\n[ 32.150714] vfs_read+0x1f0/0x9e0\n[ 32.152297] ksys_read+0x125/0x240\n\nIOW ovl_check_encode_origin derefs inode-\u003ei_sb-\u003es_root, after it was set\nto NULL in the unmount path.\n\nFix it by protecting calling exportfs_encode_fid() from\nshow_mark_fhandle() with s_umount lock.\n\nThis form of fix was suggested by Amir in [1].\n\n[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAOQ4uxhbDwhb+2Brs1UdkoF0a3NSdBAOQPNfEHjahrgoKJpLEw@mail.gmail.com/" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a1a541fbfa7e97c1100144db34b57553d7164ce5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"950b604384fd75d62e860bec7135b2b62eb4d508"},{"version":"f0c0ac84de17c37e6e84da65fb920f91dada55ad","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bc1c6b803e14ea2b8f7e33b7164013f666ceb656"},{"version":"3c7c90274ae339e1ad443c9be1c67a20b80b9c76","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3f307a9f7a7a2822e38ac451b73e2244e7279496"},{"version":"c45beebfde34aa71afbc48b2c54cdda623515037","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d1894bc542becb0fda61e7e513b09523cab44030"},{"version":"c45beebfde34aa71afbc48b2c54cdda623515037","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a7c4bb43bfdc2b9f06ee9d036028ed13a83df42a"},{"version":"6.6.72","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.73"},{"version":"6.6.74","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.115"},{"version":"6.12.10","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.56"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.13"},{"version":"6.6.73","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.6.115","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.56","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.17.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.17.*"},{"version":"6.18","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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