vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2025-21963: Security patch for kernel (ALASKERNEL-5.15-2025-070)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Apr 1, 2025
Added
May 22, 2025
Modified
May 22, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

cifs: Fix integer overflow while processing acdirmax mount option

User-provided mount parameter acdirmax of type u32 is intended to have
an upper limit, but before it is validated, the value is converted from
seconds to jiffies which can lead to an integer overflow.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Solutions

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