CVE-2025-40200 | Squashfs: reject negative file sizes in squashfs_read_inode()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Squashfs: reject negative file sizes in squashfs_read_inode() Syskaller reports a "WARNING in ovl_copy_up_file" in overlayfs. This warning is ultimately caused because the underlying Squashfs file system returns a file with a negative file size. This commit checks for a negative file size and returns EINVAL. [[email protected]: only need to check 64 bit quantity]

Published: 2025-11-12 Last update: 2026-04-15 Assigner: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2025-40200 is rated Low Risk (18.2/100): low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.06%). Mandatory action: Low composite risk—no urgent action required; patch on your normal maintenance cycle and revisit priority if CVSS or EPSS increases.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-40200

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-04-22 0.04% 0.06% +0.01%
2 2026-04-10 0.06% 0.04% -0.02%
3 2025-12-18 0.06%

Full EPSS history (4 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-40200

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Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-40200

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-40200

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2025-40200 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 2 source packages (linux, linux-6.1), 6 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 6. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-40200
redhat low https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-40200
suse medium https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-40200/
ubuntu medium CVE-2025-40200 medium priority: Ubuntu including 157 source packages (linux, linux-allwinner-5.19, …), 1405 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 1010, ignored 181, released 158, needed 49, not-affected 4, pending 3. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-40200

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-40200

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References for CVE-2025-40200

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