disk image security

  1. Linux Kernel UDF Patch Defends Against Out-of-Bounds Reads (CVE-2025-40044)

    The Linux kernel received a targeted fix for an out‑of‑bounds read in the UDF filesystem parser — a small defensive change that closes a KASAN‑reported use‑after‑free triggered by malformed Allocation Extent Descriptors and prevents crc_itu_t from being invoked on memory outside the descriptor...