CVE-2025-40198 - ext4: avoid potential buffer over-read in parse_apply_sb_mount_options()

CVE-2025-40198 - ext4: avoid potential buffer over-read in parse_apply_sb_mount_options()

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CVE ID : CVE-2025-40198
Published : Nov. 12, 2025, 10:15 p.m. | 2 hours, 32 minutes ago
Description : 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.
Severity: 0.0 | NA
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