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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-71123"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-01-14T15:06:09.246Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:10:55.773Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:44.935Z"
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-2025-71123"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-71123.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-71123"
title: "ext4: fix string copying in parse_apply_sb_mount_options()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: fix string copying in parse_apply_sb_mount_options()\n\nstrscpy_pad() can't be used to copy a non-NUL-term string into a NUL-term\nstring of possibly bigger size.  Commit 0efc5990bca5 (\"string.h: Introduce\nmemtostr() and memtostr_pad()\") provides additional information in that\nregard.  So if this happens, the following warning is observed:\n\nstrnlen: detected buffer overflow: 65 byte read of buffer size 64\nWARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 28655 at lib/string_helpers.c:1032 __fortify_report+0x96/0xc0 lib/string_helpers.c:1032\nModules linked in:\nCPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 28655 Comm: syz-executor.3 Not tainted 6.12.54-syzkaller-00144-g5f0270f1ba00 #0\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:__fortify_report+0x96/0xc0 lib/string_helpers.c:1032\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n __fortify_panic+0x1f/0x30 lib/string_helpers.c:1039\n strnlen include/linux/fortify-string.h:235 [inline]\n sized_strscpy include/linux/fortify-string.h:309 [inline]\n parse_apply_sb_mount_options fs/ext4/super.c:2504 [inline]\n __ext4_fill_super fs/ext4/super.c:5261 [inline]\n ext4_fill_super+0x3c35/0xad00 fs/ext4/super.c:5706\n get_tree_bdev_flags+0x387/0x620 fs/super.c:1636\n vfs_get_tree+0x93/0x380 fs/super.c:1814\n do_new_mount fs/namespace.c:3553 [inline]\n path_mount+0x6ae/0x1f70 fs/namespace.c:3880\n do_mount fs/namespace.c:3893 [inline]\n __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4103 [inline]\n __se_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4080 [inline]\n __x64_sys_mount+0x280/0x300 fs/namespace.c:4080\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x64/0x140 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n\nSince userspace is expected to provide s_mount_opts field to be at most 63\ncharacters long with the ending byte being NUL-term, use a 64-byte buffer\nwhich matches the size of s_mount_opts, so that strscpy_pad() does its job\nproperly.  Return with error if the user still managed to provide a\nnon-NUL-term string here.\n\nFound by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller."
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