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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-40241"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-04T15:31:30.594Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:08:45.194Z"
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-2025-40241"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40241.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40241"
title: "erofs: fix crafted invalid cases for encoded extents"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nerofs: fix crafted invalid cases for encoded extents\n\nRobert recently reported two corrupted images that can cause system\ncrashes, which are related to the new encoded extents introduced\nin Linux 6.15:\n\n  - The first one [1] has plen != 0 (e.g. plen == 0x2000000) but\n    (plen & Z_EROFS_EXTENT_PLEN_MASK) == 0. It is used to represent\n    special extents such as sparse extents (!EROFS_MAP_MAPPED), but\n    previously only plen == 0 was handled;\n\n  - The second one [2] has pa 0xffffffffffdcffed and plen 0xb4000,\n    then \"cur [0xfffffffffffff000] += bvec.bv_len [0x1000]\" in\n    \"} while ((cur += bvec.bv_len) \u003c end);\" wraps around, causing an\n    out-of-bound access of pcl-\u003ecompressed_bvecs[] in\n    z_erofs_submit_queue().  EROFS only supports 48-bit physical block\n    addresses (up to 1EiB for 4k blocks), so add a sanity check to\n    enforce this."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1d191b4ca51d73699cb127386b95ac152af2b930","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"00d8fe0b72f4ca0a983abced36aad2160038c421"},{"version":"1d191b4ca51d73699cb127386b95ac152af2b930","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a429b76114aaca3ef1aff4cd469dcf025431bd11"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.15"},{"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"}]

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