Security Advisory

CVE-2025-40084

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-10-29 13:37:03
Last updated 2026-05-11 21:42:12
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: transport_ipc: validate payload size before reading handle handle_response() dereferences the payload as a 4-byte handle without verifying that the declared payload size is at least 4 bytes. A malformed or truncated message from ksmbd.mountd can lead to a 4-byte read past the declared payload size. Validate the size before dereferencing. This is a minimal fix to guard the initial handle read.