Vulnerability in Linux

CVE-2025-39998

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: target: target_core_configfs: Add length check to avoid buffer overflow A buffer overflow arises from the usage of snprintf to write into the buffer "buf" in target_lu_gp_members_show function located in /drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c. This buffer is allocated with size LU_GROUP_NAME_BUF (256 bytes). snprintf(...) formats multiple strings into buf with the HBA name (hba->hba_group.cg_item), a slash character, a devicename (dev-> dev_group.cg_item) and a newline character, the total formatted string length may exceed the buffer size of 256 bytes. Since snprintf() returns the total number of bytes that would have been written (the length of %s/%sn ), this value may exceed the buffer length (256 bytes) passed to memcpy(), this will ultimately cause function memcpy reporting a buffer overflow error. An additional check of the return value of snprintf() can avoid this buffer overflow.

EPSS: 0.002 (5.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.1 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

  • Linux — versions c66ac9db8d4ad9994a02b3e933ea2ccc643e1fe5, 2.6.38, 0

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-39998?
CVE-2025-39998 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux. CVSS score: 7.1/10. Published 2025-10-15.
How severe is CVE-2025-39998?
High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.1 out of 10.