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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-40351" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-12-16T13:30:24.764Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:47:41.349Z" 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-2025-40351" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40351.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40351" title: "hfsplus: fix KMSAN uninit-value issue in hfsplus_delete_cat()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nhfsplus: fix KMSAN uninit-value issue in hfsplus_delete_cat()\n\nThe syzbot reported issue in hfsplus_delete_cat():\n\n[ 70.682285][ T9333] =====================================================\n[ 70.682943][ T9333] BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in hfsplus_subfolders_dec+0x1d7/0x220\n[ 70.683640][ T9333] hfsplus_subfolders_dec+0x1d7/0x220\n[ 70.684141][ T9333] hfsplus_delete_cat+0x105d/0x12b0\n[ 70.684621][ T9333] hfsplus_rmdir+0x13d/0x310\n[ 70.685048][ T9333] vfs_rmdir+0x5ba/0x810\n[ 70.685447][ T9333] do_rmdir+0x964/0xea0\n[ 70.685833][ T9333] __x64_sys_rmdir+0x71/0xb0\n[ 70.686260][ T9333] x64_sys_call+0xcd8/0x3cf0\n[ 70.686695][ T9333] do_syscall_64+0xd9/0x1d0\n[ 70.687119][ T9333] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n[ 70.687646][ T9333]\n[ 70.687856][ T9333] Uninit was stored to memory at:\n[ 70.688311][ T9333] hfsplus_subfolders_inc+0x1c2/0x1d0\n[ 70.688779][ T9333] hfsplus_create_cat+0x148e/0x1800\n[ 70.689231][ T9333] hfsplus_mknod+0x27f/0x600\n[ 70.689730][ T9333] hfsplus_mkdir+0x5a/0x70\n[ 70.690146][ T9333] vfs_mkdir+0x483/0x7a0\n[ 70.690545][ T9333] do_mkdirat+0x3f2/0xd30\n[ 70.690944][ T9333] __x64_sys_mkdir+0x9a/0xf0\n[ 70.691380][ T9333] x64_sys_call+0x2f89/0x3cf0\n[ 70.691816][ T9333] do_syscall_64+0xd9/0x1d0\n[ 70.692229][ T9333] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n[ 70.692773][ T9333]\n[ 70.692990][ T9333] Uninit was stored to memory at:\n[ 70.693469][ T9333] hfsplus_subfolders_inc+0x1c2/0x1d0\n[ 70.693960][ T9333] hfsplus_create_cat+0x148e/0x1800\n[ 70.694438][ T9333] hfsplus_fill_super+0x21c1/0x2700\n[ 70.694911][ T9333] mount_bdev+0x37b/0x530\n[ 70.695320][ T9333] hfsplus_mount+0x4d/0x60\n[ 70.695729][ T9333] legacy_get_tree+0x113/0x2c0\n[ 70.696167][ T9333] vfs_get_tree+0xb3/0x5c0\n[ 70.696588][ T9333] do_new_mount+0x73e/0x1630\n[ 70.697013][ T9333] path_mount+0x6e3/0x1eb0\n[ 70.697425][ T9333] __se_sys_mount+0x733/0x830\n[ 70.697857][ T9333] __x64_sys_mount+0xe4/0x150\n[ 70.698269][ T9333] x64_sys_call+0x2691/0x3cf0\n[ 70.698704][ T9333] do_syscall_64+0xd9/0x1d0\n[ 70.699117][ T9333] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n[ 70.699730][ T9333]\n[ 70.699946][ T9333] Uninit was created at:\n[ 70.700378][ T9333] __alloc_pages_noprof+0x714/0xe60\n[ 70.700843][ T9333] alloc_pages_mpol_noprof+0x2a2/0x9b0\n[ 70.701331][ T9333] alloc_pages_noprof+0xf8/0x1f0\n[ 70.701774][ T9333] allocate_slab+0x30e/0x1390\n[ 70.702194][ T9333] ___slab_alloc+0x1049/0x33a0\n[ 70.702635][ T9333] kmem_cache_alloc_lru_noprof+0x5ce/0xb20\n[ 70.703153][ T9333] hfsplus_alloc_inode+0x5a/0xd0\n[ 70.703598][ T9333] alloc_inode+0x82/0x490\n[ 70.703984][ T9333] iget_locked+0x22e/0x1320\n[ 70.704428][ T9333] hfsplus_iget+0x5c/0xba0\n[ 70.704827][ T9333] hfsplus_btree_open+0x135/0x1dd0\n[ 70.705291][ T9333] hfsplus_fill_super+0x1132/0x2700\n[ 70.705776][ T9333] mount_bdev+0x37b/0x530\n[ 70.706171][ T9333] hfsplus_mount+0x4d/0x60\n[ 70.706579][ T9333] legacy_get_tree+0x113/0x2c0\n[ 70.707019][ T9333] vfs_get_tree+0xb3/0x5c0\n[ 70.707444][ T9333] do_new_mount+0x73e/0x1630\n[ 70.707865][ T9333] path_mount+0x6e3/0x1eb0\n[ 70.708270][ T9333] __se_sys_mount+0x733/0x830\n[ 70.708711][ T9333] __x64_sys_mount+0xe4/0x150\n[ 70.709158][ T9333] x64_sys_call+0x2691/0x3cf0\n[ 70.709630][ T9333] do_syscall_64+0xd9/0x1d0\n[ 70.710053][ T9333] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n[ 70.710611][ T9333]\n[ 70.710842][ T9333] CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 9333 Comm: repro Not tainted 6.12.0-rc6-dirty #17\n[ 70.711568][ T9333] Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014\n[ 70.712490][ T9333] =====================================================\n[ 70.713085][ T9333] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint\n[ 70.713618][ T9333] Kernel panic - not syncing: kmsan.panic set ...\n[ 70.714159][ T9333] \n---truncated---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"d7d673a591701f131e53d4fd4e2b9352f1316642","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a2bee43b451615531ae6f3cf45054f02915ef885"},{"version":"d7d673a591701f131e53d4fd4e2b9352f1316642","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b07630afe1671096dc64064190cae3b6165cf6e4"},{"version":"d7d673a591701f131e53d4fd4e2b9352f1316642","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9df3c241fbf69edce968b20eeeeb3f6da34af041"},{"version":"d7d673a591701f131e53d4fd4e2b9352f1316642","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1b9e5ade272f8be6421c9eea4c4f6810180017f9"},{"version":"d7d673a591701f131e53d4fd4e2b9352f1316642","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2bb8bc99b1a7a46d83f95c46f530305f6df84eaf"},{"version":"d7d673a591701f131e53d4fd4e2b9352f1316642","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"295527bfdefd5bf31ec8218e2891a65777141d05"},{"version":"d7d673a591701f131e53d4fd4e2b9352f1316642","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4891bf2b09c313622a6e07d7f108aa5e123c768d"},{"version":"d7d673a591701f131e53d4fd4e2b9352f1316642","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9b3d15a758910bb98ba8feb4109d99cc67450ee4"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.14"},{"version":"5.4.301","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.246","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.196","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"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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