CVE-2025-40205

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: avoid potential out-of-bounds in btrfs_encode_fh() The function btrfs_encode_fh() does not properly account for the three cases it handles. Before writing to the file handle (fh), the function only returns to the user BTRFS_FID_SIZE_NON_CONNECTABLE (5 dwords, 20 bytes) or BTRFS_FID_SIZE_CONNECTABLE (8 dwords, 32 bytes). However, when a parent exists and the root ID of the parent and the inode are different, the function writes BTRFS_FID_SIZE_CONNECTABLE_ROOT (10 dwords, 40 bytes). If *max_len is not large enough, this write goes out of bounds because BTRFS_FID_SIZE_CONNECTABLE_ROOT is greater than BTRFS_FID_SIZE_CONNECTABLE originally returned. This results in an 8-byte out-of-bounds write at fid->parent_root_objectid = parent_root_id. A previous attempt to fix this issue was made but was lost. https://lore.kernel.org/all/4CADAEEC020000780001B32C@vpn.id2.novell.com/ Although this issue does not seem to be easily triggerable, it is a potential memory corruption bug that should be fixed. This patch resolves the issue by ensuring the function returns the appropriate size for all three cases and validates that *max_len is large enough before writing any data.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-04-16 | Published 2025-11-12 | Updated 2025-11-12 | Assigner Linux

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References

git.kernel.org/...c/60de2f55d2aca53e81b4ef2a67d7cc9e1eb677db

git.kernel.org/...c/742b44342204e5dfe3926433823623c1a0c581df

git.kernel.org/...c/d3a9a8e1275eb9b87f006b5562a287aea3f6885f

git.kernel.org/...c/d91f6626133698362bba08fbc04bd72c466806d3

git.kernel.org/...c/0276c8582488022f057b4cec21975a5edf079f47

git.kernel.org/...c/361d67276eb8ec6be8f27f4ad6c6090459438fee

git.kernel.org/...c/43143776b0a7604d873d1a6f3e552a00aa930224

git.kernel.org/...c/dff4f9ff5d7f289e4545cc936362e01ed3252742

cve.org (CVE-2025-40205)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-40205)

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