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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-40246" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-12-04T16:08:09.751Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:45:37.260Z" 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-2025-40246" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40246.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40246" title: "xfs: fix out of bounds memory read error in symlink repair" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxfs: fix out of bounds memory read error in symlink repair\n\nxfs/286 produced this report on my test fleet:\n\n ==================================================================\n BUG: KFENCE: out-of-bounds read in memcpy_orig+0x54/0x110\n\n Out-of-bounds read at 0xffff88843fe9e038 (184B right of kfence-#184):\n memcpy_orig+0x54/0x110\n xrep_symlink_salvage_inline+0xb3/0xf0 [xfs]\n xrep_symlink_salvage+0x100/0x110 [xfs]\n xrep_symlink+0x2e/0x80 [xfs]\n xrep_attempt+0x61/0x1f0 [xfs]\n xfs_scrub_metadata+0x34f/0x5c0 [xfs]\n xfs_ioc_scrubv_metadata+0x387/0x560 [xfs]\n xfs_file_ioctl+0xe23/0x10e0 [xfs]\n __x64_sys_ioctl+0x76/0xc0\n do_syscall_64+0x4e/0x1e0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53\n\n kfence-#184: 0xffff88843fe9df80-0xffff88843fe9dfea, size=107, cache=kmalloc-128\n\n allocated by task 3470 on cpu 1 at 263329.131592s (192823.508886s ago):\n xfs_init_local_fork+0x79/0xe0 [xfs]\n xfs_iformat_local+0xa4/0x170 [xfs]\n xfs_iformat_data_fork+0x148/0x180 [xfs]\n xfs_inode_from_disk+0x2cd/0x480 [xfs]\n xfs_iget+0x450/0xd60 [xfs]\n xfs_bulkstat_one_int+0x6b/0x510 [xfs]\n xfs_bulkstat_iwalk+0x1e/0x30 [xfs]\n xfs_iwalk_ag_recs+0xdf/0x150 [xfs]\n xfs_iwalk_run_callbacks+0xb9/0x190 [xfs]\n xfs_iwalk_ag+0x1dc/0x2f0 [xfs]\n xfs_iwalk_args.constprop.0+0x6a/0x120 [xfs]\n xfs_iwalk+0xa4/0xd0 [xfs]\n xfs_bulkstat+0xfa/0x170 [xfs]\n xfs_ioc_fsbulkstat.isra.0+0x13a/0x230 [xfs]\n xfs_file_ioctl+0xbf2/0x10e0 [xfs]\n __x64_sys_ioctl+0x76/0xc0\n do_syscall_64+0x4e/0x1e0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53\n\n CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1300113 Comm: xfs_scrub Not tainted 6.18.0-rc4-djwx #rc4 PREEMPT(lazy) 3d744dd94e92690f00a04398d2bd8631dcef1954\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.0-4.module+el8.8.0+21164+ed375313 04/01/2014\n ==================================================================\n\nOn further analysis, I realized that the second parameter to min() is\nnot correct. xfs_ifork::if_bytes is the size of the xfs_ifork::if_data\nbuffer. if_bytes can be smaller than the data fork size because:\n\n(a) the forkoff code tries to keep the data area as large as possible\n(b) for symbolic links, if_bytes is the ondisk file size + 1\n(c) forkoff is always a multiple of 8.\n\nCase in point: for a single-byte symlink target, forkoff will be\n8 but the buffer will only be 2 bytes long.\n\nIn other words, the logic here is wrong and we walk off the end of the\nincore buffer. Fix that." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"2651923d8d8db00a57665822f017fa7c76758044","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7c2d68e091584149fe89bcbaf9b99b3162d46ee7"},{"version":"2651923d8d8db00a57665822f017fa7c76758044","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"81a8685cac4bf081c93a7df591644f4f80240bb9"},{"version":"2651923d8d8db00a57665822f017fa7c76758044","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"678e1cc2f482e0985a0613ab4a5bf89c497e5acc"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.10"},{"version":"6.12.60","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.17.10","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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