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CVE-2025-37983: qibfs: fix _another_ leak

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-05-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-401

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...

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 11.0
• Linux kernel: before 5.4.293; from 5.5 before 5.10.237; from 5.11 before 5.15.181; from 5.16 before 6.1.136; from 6.2 before 6.6.89; from 6.7 before 6.12.26 — fixed in 5.10.237, 5.15.181, 5.4.293, 6.1.136, 6.12.26, 6.14.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 5.10.237, 5.15.181, 5.4.293, 6.1.136. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/24faa6ea274a2b96d0a78a0996c3137c2b2a65f0
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c2fde33e3e505dfd1a895d1f24bad650c655e14
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47ab2caba495c1d6a899d284e541a8df656dcfe9
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/545defa656568c74590317cd30068f85134a8216
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d53e88d8370b9ab14dd830abb410d9a2671edb6
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e280cce3a29b7fe7b828c6ccd5aa5ba87ceb6b6
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5fe708c5e3c8b2152c6caaa67243e431a5d6cca3
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bdb43af4fdb39f844ede401bdb1258f67a580a27
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00045.html

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