CVE-2025-22072

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel Use-After-Free in Gang Directory Lifecycle

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: spufs: fix gang directory lifetimes prior to "[POWERPC] spufs: Fix gang destroy leaks" we used to have a problem with gang lifetimes - creation of a gang returns opened gang directory, which normally gets removed when that gets closed, but if somebody has created a context belonging to that gang and kept it alive until the gang got closed, removal failed and we ended up with a leak. Unfortunately, it had been fixed the wrong way. Dentry of gang directory was no longer pinned, and rmdir on close was gone. One problem was that failure of open kept calling simple_rmdir() as cleanup, which meant an unbalanced dput(). Another bug was in the success case - gang creation incremented link count on root directory, but that was no longer undone when gang got destroyed. Fix consists of * reverting the commit in question * adding a counter to gang, protected by ->i_rwsem of gang directory inode. * having it set to 1 at creation time, dropped in both spufs_dir_close() and spufs_gang_close() and bumped in spufs_create_context(), provided that it's not 0. * using simple_recursive_removal() to take the gang directory out when counter reaches zero.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0019
EPSS Percentile 8.8%
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 (21)
linux/Kernel 2.6.22 - 6.1.134linux
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 < 2.6.22
Linux/Linux 2.6.22
Linux/Linux 6.1.134 - 6.1.*
Linux/Linux 6.12.23 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.13.11 - 6.13.*
... and 11 more
Published Apr 16, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026