CVE-2025-22000

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 6.9-6.12.20 - Use-After-Free in Folio Reference Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/huge_memory: drop beyond-EOF folios with the right number of refs When an after-split folio is large and needs to be dropped due to EOF, folio_put_refs(folio, folio_nr_pages(folio)) should be used to drop all page cache refs. Otherwise, the folio will not be freed, causing memory leak. This leak would happen on a filesystem with blocksize > page_size and a truncate is performed, where the blocksize makes folios split to >0 order ones, causing truncated folios not being freed.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0015
EPSS Percentile 4.7%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-401
Status published
Products (12)
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.13.9linux
linux/Kernel 6.9.0 - 6.12.21linux
Linux/Linux < 6.9
Linux/Linux 6.12.21 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.13.9 - 6.13.*
Linux/Linux 6.14
Linux/Linux 6.9
Linux/Linux c010d47f107f609b9f4d6a103b6dfc53889049e9 - 14efb4793519d73fb2902bb0ece319b886e4b4b9
Linux/Linux c010d47f107f609b9f4d6a103b6dfc53889049e9 - 86368616a9ce51f6b41efa251b6e066893851d67
Linux/Linux c010d47f107f609b9f4d6a103b6dfc53889049e9 - 92ad820a1f2d95d5a8d6c2bd3f391bbb068a5f9e
... and 2 more
Published Apr 03, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026