Bug 2414744 (CVE-2025-40198) - CVE-2025-40198 kernel: ext4: avoid potential buffer over-read in parse_apply_sb_mount_options()
Summary: CVE-2025-40198 kernel: ext4: avoid potential buffer over-read in parse_apply_...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-40198
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-11-12 23:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-11-13 10:25 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-11-12 23:03:59 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ext4: avoid potential buffer over-read in parse_apply_sb_mount_options()

Unlike other strings in the ext4 superblock, we rely on tune2fs to
make sure s_mount_opts is NUL terminated.  Harden
parse_apply_sb_mount_options() by treating s_mount_opts as a potential
__nonstring.


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