CVE-2025-21748 Affecting linux-6.1 package, versions <6.1.129-1~deb11u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (10th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-LINUX61-9576031
  • published1 Apr 2025
  • disclosed27 Feb 2025

Introduced: 27 Feb 2025

CVE-2025-21748  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 linux-6.1 to version 6.1.129-1~deb11u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream linux-6.1 package and not the linux-6.1 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

ksmbd: fix integer overflows on 32 bit systems

On 32bit systems the addition operations in ipc_msg_alloc() can potentially overflow leading to memory corruption. Add bounds checking using KSMBD_IPC_MAX_PAYLOAD to avoid overflow.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1