CVE-2025-22071

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Use-After-Free in spufs_create_context()

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: spufs: fix a leak in spufs_create_context() Leak fixes back in 2008 missed one case - if we are trying to set affinity and spufs_mkdir() fails, we need to drop the reference to neighbor.

References (10)

Core 10
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0017
EPSS Percentile 7.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-401
Status published
Products (29)
linux/Kernel 2.6.25 - 5.4.292linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.180linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.134linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.236linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.13.11linux
linux/Kernel 6.14.0 - 6.14.2linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.87linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.23linux
Linux/Linux < 2.6.25
Linux/Linux 2.6.25
... and 19 more
Published Apr 16, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026