CVE-2025-21679

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 6.12.5-6.12.11 - Use-After-Free in get_canonical_dev_path

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: add the missing error handling inside get_canonical_dev_path Inside function get_canonical_dev_path(), we call d_path() to get the final device path. But d_path() can return error, and in that case the next strscpy() call will trigger an invalid memory access. Add back the missing error handling for d_path().

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0017
EPSS Percentile 6.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (6)
linux/Kernel 6.12.5 - 6.12.11linux
Linux/Linux 5d261f60b5c82ba1e4b5555252e1c90c43d96015 - d0fb5741932b831eded49bfaaf33353e96200d6d
Linux/Linux 6.12.5 - 6.12.11
Linux/Linux 7e06de7c83a746e58d4701e013182af133395188 - fe4de594f7a2e9bc49407de60fbd20809fad4192
linux/linux_kernel 6.13 rc1 (7 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 6.12.5 - 6.12.11
Published Jan 31, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026