# CVE-2025-37983: qibfs: fix \_another\_ leak

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-05-20 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 2.6.35

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: qibfs: fix _another_ leak failure to allocate inode => leaked dentry... this one had been there since the initial merge; to be fair, if we are that far OOM, the odds of failing at that particular allocation are low...

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## Related

- Browse: [Linux kernel](https://cve.now/tech/linux-kernel.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e280cce3a29b7fe7b828c6ccd5aa5ba87ceb6b6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c2fde33e3e505dfd1a895d1f24bad650c655e14
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5fe708c5e3c8b2152c6caaa67243e431a5d6cca3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/545defa656568c74590317cd30068f85134a8216
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d53e88d8370b9ab14dd830abb410d9a2671edb6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47ab2caba495c1d6a899d284e541a8df656dcfe9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/24faa6ea274a2b96d0a78a0996c3137c2b2a65f0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bdb43af4fdb39f844ede401bdb1258f67a580a27

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