Vulnerability in Linux

CVE-2025-40200

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Squashfs: reject negative file sizes in squashfs_read_inode() Syskaller reports a "WARNING in ovl_copy_up_file" in overlayfs. This warning is ultimately caused because the underlying Squashfs file system returns a file with a negative file size. This commit checks for a negative file size and returns EINVAL. [phillip@squashfs.org.uk: only need to check 64 bit quantity]

EPSS: 0.002 (9.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Linux — versions 6545b246a2c815a8fcd07d58240effb6ec3481b1, 2.6.29, 0

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