fs/ntfs3: Initialize allocated memory before use (Linux Linux)

CVE-2025-68365
HIGH 8.2

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.41 % · percentile 36 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: Initialize allocated memory before use KMSAN reports: Multiple uninitialized values detected: - KMSAN: uninit-value in ntfs_read_hdr (3) - KMSAN: uninit-value in bcmp (3) Memory is allocated by __getname(), which is a wrapper for kmem_cache_alloc(). This memory is used before being properly cleared. Change kmem_cache_alloc() to kmem_cache_zalloc() to properly allocate and clear memory before use.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-908 — Use of Uninitialized Resource

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.2CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.2CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 82cae269cfa953032fbb8980a7d554d60fb00b17 < bdf38063fd15f2fc7361dc0b5d3c259741eab835 ; affected 82cae269cfa953032fbb8980a7d554d60fb00b17 < a58e29849aef8d26554a982989a2190b49aaf8ed ; affected 82cae269cfa953032fbb8980a7d554d60fb00b17 < 7d52c592cf53f5bb7163967edc01d2d7d80de44a ; affected 82cae269cfa953032fbb8980a7d554d60fb00b17 < f7728057220cabd720e27e46097edad48e5bd728 ; affected 82cae269cfa953032fbb8980a7d554d60fb00b17 < 192e8ce302f14ac66259231dd10cede19858d742 ; affected 82cae269cfa953032fbb8980a7d554d60fb00b17 < a8a3ca23bbd9d849308a7921a049330dc6c91398
Linux · Linuxaffected 5.15 ; unaffected 0 < 5.15 ; unaffected 5.15.199 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.162 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.122 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.68 ≤ 6.12.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD