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medium 5.5

CVE-2025-39940 json

dm-stripe: fix a possible integer overflow

published 2025-10-04 13 mo ago modified 2026-11-05 3 d ago also EUVD-2025-32387

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 9%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

dm-stripe: fix a possible integer overflow

There's a possible integer overflow in stripe_io_hints if we have too large chunk size. Test if the overflow happened, and if it did, don't set limits->io_min and limits->io_opt;

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 6.6.160, 6.12.49, 6.16.9, 6.17
  • linux Debian 13 6.12.57-1
  • linux Debian 14 6.16.9-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-39940

  • linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-106.106
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1050.53
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1052.55
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1048.53
  • linux-ibm Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1049.49
  • linux-azure Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1051.57
  • linux-gkeop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1035.38
  • linux-raspi Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1050.54

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-39940

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-39940 updated cvss 6.6

kernel: Linux kernel: Denial of Service via integer overflow in dm-stripe

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
3 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 9% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound
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References

Sources

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