CVE-2025-40087 (GCVE-0-2025-40087)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-30 09:47 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:07
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Title
NFSD: Define a proc_layoutcommit for the FlexFiles layout type
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
NFSD: Define a proc_layoutcommit for the FlexFiles layout type
Avoid a crash if a pNFS client should happen to send a LAYOUTCOMMIT
operation on a FlexFiles layout.
Severity
7.5 (High)
Assigner
References
8 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
9b9960a0ca4773e21c4b153ed355583946346b25 , < a75994dd879401c3e24ff51c2536559f1a53ea27
(git)
Affected: 9b9960a0ca4773e21c4b153ed355583946346b25 , < 34d187e020cbda112a6c6f094f0ca5e6a8672b75 (git) Affected: 9b9960a0ca4773e21c4b153ed355583946346b25 , < ba88a53d7f5df4191583abf214214efe0cda91d2 (git) Affected: 9b9960a0ca4773e21c4b153ed355583946346b25 , < da9129ef77786839a3ccd1d7afeeab790bceaa1d (git) Affected: 9b9960a0ca4773e21c4b153ed355583946346b25 , < f7353208c91ab004e0179c5fb6c365b0f132f9f0 (git) Affected: 9b9960a0ca4773e21c4b153ed355583946346b25 , < a156af6a4dc38c2aa7c98e89520a70fb3b3e7df4 (git) Affected: 9b9960a0ca4773e21c4b153ed355583946346b25 , < 785ec512afa80d0540f2ca797c0e56de747a6083 (git) Affected: 9b9960a0ca4773e21c4b153ed355583946346b25 , < 4b47a8601b71ad98833b447d465592d847b4dc77 (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
4.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.8 (semver) Unaffected: 5.4.301 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.246 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.196 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.158 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.114 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.55 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.17.5 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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