2400062 – (CVE-2025-39798) CVE-2025-39798 kernel: NFS: Fix the setting of capabilities when automounting a new filesystem

Bug 2400062 (CVE-2025-39798) - CVE-2025-39798 kernel: NFS: Fix the setting of capabilities when automounting a new filesystem

Summary: CVE-2025-39798 kernel: NFS: Fix the setting of capabilities when automounting...

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Status:	NEW
Alias:	CVE-2025-39798
Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Priority:	medium
Severity:	medium
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported:	2025-09-29 07:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified:	2026-06-29 20:29 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-09-29 07:02:20 UTC

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

NFS: Fix the setting of capabilities when automounting a new filesystem

Capabilities cannot be inherited when we cross into a new filesystem.
They need to be reset to the minimal defaults, and then probed for
again.

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