What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-21962: cifs: Fix integer overflow while processing closetimeo mount option

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-04-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: Fix integer overflow while processing closetimeo mount option User-provided mount parameter closetimeo 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.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: from 5.15.107 before 5.15.180; from 6.0 before 6.1.132; from 6.2 before 6.6.84; from 6.7 before 6.12.20; from 6.13 before 6.13.8; 6.14-rc1, 6.14-rc2, 6.14-rc3, 6.14-rc4, 6.14-rc5, 6.14-rc6 — fixed in 5.15.180, 6.1.132, 6.12.20, 6.13.8, 6.6.84

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 5.15.180, 6.1.132, 6.12.20, 6.13.8. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c46673be93dd2954f44fe370fb4f2b8e6214224
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/513f6cf2e906a504b7ab0b62b2eea993a6f64558
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c13fcb7cf59ae65940da1dfea80144e42921e53
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9968fcf02cf6b0f78fbacf3f63e782162603855a
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b24edd5c191c2689c59d0509f0903f9487eb6317
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d5a30fddfe2f2e540f6c43b59cf701809995faef
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00045.html

Get alerted when CVE-2025-21962 or the next vulnerability affects your stack