CVE-2025-21964 and is rated Medium severity with a CVSS score of 5.5. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.
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Vendor revision: Aug 12, 2026
CBL-Mariner Releases
Vendor-listed releases
6.6.85.1-2
5.15.180.1-1
CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog
EPSS0.2%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability
Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field
Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships
Overview
What is CVE-2025-21964?
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.