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CVE-2025-8142:
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Overview
A security vulnerability identified as CVE-2025-8142 affects the Linux kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on May 26, 2025, and is related to an integer overflow issue in the CIFS filesystem while processing the acregmax mount option (Red Hat Advisory).
Technical details
The vulnerability exists in the kernel's CIFS (Common Internet File System) implementation, specifically affecting how the system processes the acregmax mount option. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate (Red Hat Advisory).
Impact
The vulnerability could potentially affect systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 across various architectures including x86_64, IBM z Systems, Power LE, and ARM 64 (Red Hat Advisory).
Mitigation and workarounds
Red Hat has released kernel version 5.14.0-570.18.1.el9_6 to address this vulnerability. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect (Red Hat Advisory).
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