CVE-2025-40067 (GCVE-0-2025-40067)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-28 11:48 – Updated: 2026-10-30 12:22
VLAI
Title
fs/ntfs3: reject index allocation if $BITMAP is empty but blocks exist
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: reject index allocation if $BITMAP is empty but blocks exist Index allocation requires at least one bit in the $BITMAP attribute to track usage of index entries. If the bitmap is empty while index blocks are already present, this reflects on-disk corruption. syzbot triggered this condition using a malformed NTFS image. During a rename() operation involving a long filename (which spans multiple index entries), the empty bitmap allowed the name to be added without valid tracking. Subsequent deletion of the original entry failed with -ENOENT, due to unexpected index state. Reject such cases by verifying that the bitmap is not empty when index blocks exist.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6643 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 47856e10f8d5e066aa26b1f9c02d933fe0620399 , < aab2e34b139f6df71ab2b1adeec9927c206adc79 (git)
Affected: b35a50d639ca5259466ef5fea85529bb4fb17d5b , < 978aac54e93ea35aab20b32ae393d3d33964e7ae (git)
Affected: 3ed2cc6a6e93fbeb8c0cafce1e7fb1f64a331dcc , < be66551da203862c689c12e1d35ce87217c017c1 (git)
Affected: d99208b91933fd2a58ed9ed321af07dacd06ddc3 , < 039ddf353cc33f6546a87ec1ac3210637d714bec (git)
Affected: d99208b91933fd2a58ed9ed321af07dacd06ddc3 , < 0dc7117da8f92dd5fe077d712a756eccbe377d40 (git)
Affected: 358d4f821c03add421a4c49290538a705852ccf1 (git)
Affected: a285395020780adac1ffbc844069c3d700bf007a (git)
Affected: 6.6.102 , < 6.6.112 (semver)
Affected: 6.12.42 , < 6.12.53 (semver)
Affected: 6.15.10 , < 6.16 (semver)
Affected: 6.16.1 , < 6.17 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.17
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.17 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.112 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.53 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.3 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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