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CVE-2025-71268

btrfs: fix reservation leak in some error paths when inserting inline extent

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 6.1.163, 6.6.124, 6.12.70, 6.18.10
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix reservation leak in some error paths when inserting inline extent If we fail to allocate a path or join a transaction, we return from __cow_file_range_inline() without freeing the reserved qgroup data, resulting in a leak. Fix this by ensuring we call btrfs_qgroup_free_data() in such cases.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Linux Linux

    From 94ed938aba557aa798acf496f09afb289b619fcd · fixed in f7156512c8166d385f574b9ec030479aa7b1e8c9; From 94ed938aba557aa798acf496f09afb289b619fcd · fixed in 28b97fcbbf523779688e8de5fe55bf2dae3859f6; From 94ed938aba557aa798acf496f09afb289b619fcd · fixed in f3ee1732851aec6fe6b2cec2ef1b32d4e71d9913; From 94ed938aba557aa798acf496f09afb289b619fcd · fixed in 28768bd3abf9995a93f6e01bfce01c60622964dd; From 94ed938aba557aa798acf496f09afb289b619fcd · fixed in c1c050f92d8f6aac4e17f7f2230160794fceef0c

  • Linux Linux

    4.4

  • KernelLinux

    From 4.4.0 · fixed in 6.1.163; From 6.2.0 · fixed in 6.6.124; From 6.7.0 · fixed in 6.12.70; From 6.13.0 · fixed in 6.18.10

References 5

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