CVE-2025-39723

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfs: Fix unbuffered write error handling If all the subrequests in an unbuffered write stream fail, the subrequest collector doesn't update the stream->transferred value and it retains its initial LONG_MAX value. Unfortunately, if all active streams fail, then we take the smallest value of { LONG_MAX, LONG_MAX, ... } as the value to set in wreq->transferred - which is then returned from ->write_iter(). LONG_MAX was chosen as the initial value so that all the streams can be quickly assessed by taking the smallest value of all stream->transferred - but this only works if we've set any of them. Fix this by adding a flag to indicate whether the value in stream->transferred is valid and checking that when we integrate the values. stream->transferred can then be initialised to zero. This was found by running the generic/750 xfstest against cifs with cache=none. It splices data to the target file. Once (if) it has used up all the available scratch space, the writes start failing with ENOSPC. This causes ->write_iter() to fail. However, it was returning wreq->transferred, i.e. LONG_MAX, rather than an error (because it thought the amount transferred was non-zero) and iter_file_splice_write() would then try to clean up that amount of pipe bufferage - leading to an oops when it overran. The kernel log showed: CIFS: VFS: Send error in write = -28 followed by: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008 with: RIP: 0010:iter_file_splice_write+0x3a4/0x520 do_splice+0x197/0x4e0 or: RIP: 0010:pipe_buf_release (include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h:282) iter_file_splice_write (fs/splice.c:755) Also put a warning check into splice to announce if ->write_iter() returned that it had written more than it was asked to.
Configurations

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OR cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

25 Nov 2025, 21:01

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time Linux linux Kernel
Linux
CPE cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : unknown
v3 : 7.8
CWE CWE-787
References () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/387164a2b97e1f5404c6d0049a7409bac7d2bc5b - () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/387164a2b97e1f5404c6d0049a7409bac7d2bc5b - Patch
References () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3de58b12ce074ec05b8741fa28d62ccb1070468 - () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3de58b12ce074ec05b8741fa28d62ccb1070468 - Patch
References () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f08c80af3c9a9849cd178b4843b7c01d103506a1 - () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f08c80af3c9a9849cd178b4843b7c01d103506a1 - Patch

Information

Published : 2025-09-05 18:15

Updated : 2025-11-25 21:01


NVD link : CVE-2025-39723

Mitre link : CVE-2025-39723

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-39723


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Products Affected

linux

  • linux_kernel
CWE
CWE-787

Out-of-bounds Write