CVE-2025-40313: Linux

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux: from 5.15, before 5.15.197 (fixed in 5.15.197); from 5.16, before 6.1.159 (fixed in 6.1.159); from 6.2, before 6.6.117 (fixed in 6.6.117); from 6.7, before 6.12.58 (fixed in 6.12.58); from 6.13, before 6.17.8 (fixed in 6.17.8)

Published 2025-12-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.