CVE-2025-40205

Linux Kernel - Out-of-Bounds Write in btrfs_encode_fh()

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: avoid potential out-of-bounds in btrfs_encode_fh() The function btrfs_encode_fh() does not properly account for the three cases it handles. Before writing to the file handle (fh), the function only returns to the user BTRFS_FID_SIZE_NON_CONNECTABLE (5 dwords, 20 bytes) or BTRFS_FID_SIZE_CONNECTABLE (8 dwords, 32 bytes). However, when a parent exists and the root ID of the parent and the inode are different, the function writes BTRFS_FID_SIZE_CONNECTABLE_ROOT (10 dwords, 40 bytes). If *max_len is not large enough, this write goes out of bounds because BTRFS_FID_SIZE_CONNECTABLE_ROOT is greater than BTRFS_FID_SIZE_CONNECTABLE originally returned. This results in an 8-byte out-of-bounds write at fid->parent_root_objectid = parent_root_id. A previous attempt to fix this issue was made but was lost. https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ Although this issue does not seem to be easily triggerable, it is a potential memory corruption bug that should be fixed. This patch resolves the issue by ensuring the function returns the appropriate size for all three cases and validates that *max_len is large enough before writing any data.

Scores

EPSS 0.0019
EPSS Percentile 9.1%

Details

Status published
Products (25)
linux/Kernel 2.6.29 - 5.4.301linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.195linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.157linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.246linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.17.4linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.113linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.54linux
Linux/Linux < 2.6.29
Linux/Linux 2.6.29
Linux/Linux 5.10.246 - 5.10.*
... and 15 more
Published Nov 12, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026