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THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2025-21646 (HIGH 7.5) — 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/a

[NVD] CVE-2025-21646 (HIGH 7.5) — 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/a

lownvdPublished 2025-01-19

CVE-2025-21646 CVSS: 7.5 HIGH Published: 2025-01-19T11:15:10.197

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 w

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CVE-2025-21646cve

Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21646