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Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2025-21963: Important priority package update for kernel

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)

Published

Apr 1, 2025

Added

Jun 11, 2025

Modified

Jul 17, 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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References

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