DEBIAN-CVE-2025-39723

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfs: Fix unbuffered write error handling If all the subrequests in an unbuffered write stream fail, the subrequest collector doesn't update the stream-transferred value and it retains its initial LONGMAX value. Unfortunately, i...

CVE-2025-39723

CVE-2025-39723 affects the Linux kernel netfs unbuffered write path. When all subrequests in an unbuffered write stream fail, stream->transferred could remain LONG_MAX, and wreq->transferred could be updated to that value, causing write_iter() to report an erroneous non‑zero transfer and tr...