CVE-2025-39998

CVE-2025-39998

High · published October 15, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
6.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

scsi: target: target_core_configfs: Add length check to avoid buffer overflow

A buffer overflow arises from the usage of snprintf to write into the

buffer "buf" in target_lu_gp_members_show function located in

/drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c. This buffer is allocated with

size LU_GROUP_NAME_BUF (256 bytes).

snprintf(...) formats multiple strings into buf with the HBA name

(hba->hba_group.cg_item), a slash character, a devicename (dev->

dev_group.cg_item) and a newline character, the total formatted string

length may exceed the buffer size of 256 bytes.

Since snprintf() returns the total number of bytes that would have been

written (the length of %s/%sn ), this value may exceed the buffer length

(256 bytes) passed to memcpy(), this will ultimately cause function

memcpy reporting a buffer overflow error.

An additional check of the return value of snprintf() can avoid this

buffer overflow.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.1 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00173 · 6.4th percentile
Published
2025-10-15T12:15Z
References (9)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 OCT 07:58Z
    scsi: target: target_core_configfs: Add length check to avoid buffer overflow
    cvelistv5