CVE-2025-21646

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21646
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-21646.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-21646
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-01-19T10:18:02.776Z
Modified
2025-11-28T02:35:23.564319Z
Summary
afs: Fix the maximum cell name length
Details

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

afs: Fix the maximum cell name length

The kafs filesystem limits the maximum length of a cell to 256 bytes, but a problem occurs if someone actually does that: kafs tries to create a directory under /proc/net/afs/ with the name of the cell, but that fails with a warning:

    WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 9 at fs/proc/generic.c:405

because procfs limits the maximum filename length to 255.

However, the DNS limits the maximum lookup length and, by extension, the maximum cell name, to 255 less two (length count and trailing NUL).

Fix this by limiting the maximum acceptable cellname length to 253. This also allows us to be sure we can create the "/afs/.<cell>/" mountpoint too.

Further, split the YFS VL record cell name maximum to be the 256 allowed by the protocol and ignore the record retrieved by YFSVL.GetCellName if it exceeds 253.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/21xxx/CVE-2025-21646.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
c3e9f888263bb4df11cbd623ceced02081cb2f9f
Fixed
9340385468d056bb700b8f28df236b81fc86a079
Fixed
7cb3e77e9b4e6ffa325a5559393d3283c9af3d01
Fixed
aabe47cf5ac5e1db2ae0635f189d836f67024904
Fixed
7673030efe0f8ca1056d3849d61784c6caa052af
Fixed
7922b1f058fe24a93730511dd0ae2e1630920096
Fixed
8fd56ad6e7c90ac2bddb0741c6b248c8c5d56ac8

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.8.0
Fixed
5.10.234
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
5.15.177
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.1.125
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.6.72
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.7.0
Fixed
6.12.10