THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2025-38660 (CRITICAL 9.8) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
[ceph] parse_longname(): strrchr() expects NUL-terminated string
... and parse_longname() is not guaranteed that. That's the reason
why it uses kmemdup_nul() to build the argument for kstrtou64();
the problem
[NVD] CVE-2025-38660 (CRITICAL 9.8) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: [ceph] parse_longname(): strrchr() expects NUL-terminated string ... and parse_longname() is not guaranteed that. That's the reason why it uses kmemdup_nul() to build the argument for kstrtou64(); the problem
CVE-2025-38660 CVSS: 9.8 CRITICAL Published: 2025-08-22T16:15:41.193
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
[ceph] parse_longname(): strrchr() expects NUL-terminated string
... and parse_longname() is not guaranteed that. That's the reason why it uses kmemdup_nul() to build the argument for kstrtou64(); the problem is, kstrtou64() is not the only thing that need it
Indicators of compromise
- CVE-2025-38660cve
Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38660