Vulnerabilities > CVE-2025-21665 - Infinite Loop vulnerability in Linux Kernel

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: filemap: avoid truncating 64-bit offset to 32 bits On 32-bit kernels, folio_seek_hole_data() was inadvertently truncating a 64-bit value to 32 bits, leading to a possible infinite loop when writing to an xfs filesystem.

Vulnerable Configurations

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

• CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

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