CVE-2025-71072
shmem: fix recovery on rename failures
Published 9 mo ago · modified 17 d ago · JSON
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
shmem: fix recovery on rename failures
maple_tree insertions can fail if we are seriously short on memory; simple_offset_rename() does not recover well if it runs into that. The same goes for simple_offset_rename_exchange().
Moreover, shmem_whiteout() expects that if it succeeds, the caller will progress to d_move(), i.e. that shmem_rename2() won't fail past the successful call of shmem_whiteout().
Not hard to fix, fortunately - mtree_store() can't fail if the index we are trying to store into is already present in the tree as a singleton.
For simple_offset_rename_exchange() that's enough - we just need to be careful about the order of operations.
For simple_offset_rename() solution is to preinsert the target into the tree for new_dir; the rest can be done without any potentially failing operations.
That preinsertion has to be done in shmem_rename2() rather than in simple_offset_rename() itself - otherwise we'd need to deal with the possibility of failure after successful shmem_whiteout().
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
0.36% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 30% of all scored CVEs.
CVSS scores
| Assigned by | Version | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNA | 3.1 | 8.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H |
| CNA | 3.1 | 8.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H |
| NVD | 3.1 | 5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
Affected products
- Linux Linux
Classification
- Technology feeds
- Linux kernel (RSS, critical only)
References
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/8fdbc6f9a994eb327868a4aa74a58953f31a2d0f
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/4b0fe71fb3965d0db83cdfc2f4fe0b3227d70113
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/4642686699a46718d7f2fb5acd1e9d866a9d9cca
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/e1b4c6a58304fd490124cc2b454d80edc786665c
Sources
- CVE List: CVE-2025-71072
- NVD: CVE-2025-71072
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