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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Apr 1, 2025· Updated Nov 3, 2025

cifs: Fix integer overflow while processing acregmax mount option

CVE-2025-21964

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

cifs: Fix integer overflow while processing acregmax mount option

User-provided mount parameter acregmax of type u32 is intended to have an upper limit, but before it is validated, the value is converted from seconds to jiffies which can lead to an integer overflow.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

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