CVE-2025-21646 (GCVE-0-2025-21646)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-01-19 10:18 – Updated: 2025-11-03 20:58
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Title
afs: Fix the maximum cell name length
Summary
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.
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Linux Linux Affected: c3e9f888263bb4df11cbd623ceced02081cb2f9f , < 9340385468d056bb700b8f28df236b81fc86a079 (git)
Affected: c3e9f888263bb4df11cbd623ceced02081cb2f9f , < 7cb3e77e9b4e6ffa325a5559393d3283c9af3d01 (git)
Affected: c3e9f888263bb4df11cbd623ceced02081cb2f9f , < aabe47cf5ac5e1db2ae0635f189d836f67024904 (git)
Affected: c3e9f888263bb4df11cbd623ceced02081cb2f9f , < 7673030efe0f8ca1056d3849d61784c6caa052af (git)
Affected: c3e9f888263bb4df11cbd623ceced02081cb2f9f , < 7922b1f058fe24a93730511dd0ae2e1630920096 (git)
Affected: c3e9f888263bb4df11cbd623ceced02081cb2f9f , < 8fd56ad6e7c90ac2bddb0741c6b248c8c5d56ac8 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 5.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.234 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.177 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.125 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.72 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.10 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.13 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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