CVE-2025-40313

kernel: ntfs3: pretend $Extend records as regular files

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Severity

Unknown

Red Hat Product Security

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CVSS

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Published · December 8, 2025

Updated · June 30, 2026

Description

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

ntfs3: pretend $Extend records as regular files

Since commit af153bb63a33 ("vfs: catch invalid modes in may_open()") requires any inode be one of S_IFDIR/S_IFLNK/S_IFREG/S_IFCHR/S_IFBLK/ S_IFIFO/S_IFSOCK type, use S_IFREG for $Extend records.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CWE not specified