CVE-2025-21994

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: fix incorrect validation for num_aces field of smb_acl parse_dcal() validate num_aces to allocate posix_ace_state_array. if (num_aces > ULONG_MAX / sizeof(struct smb_ace *)) It is an incorrect validation that we can create an array of size ULONG_MAX. smb_acl has ->size field to calculate actual number of aces in request buffer size. Use this to check invalid num_aces.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
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Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`6.12.21-1`
sid	Fixed	`6.12.21-1`
forky	Fixed	`6.12.21-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`0`
bookworm	Fixed	`6.1.133-1`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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