CVE-2025-37950

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 6.14-6.14.6 - NULL Pointer Dereference in OCFS2 Folio Allocation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ocfs2: fix panic in failed foilio allocation commit 7e119cff9d0a ("ocfs2: convert w_pages to w_folios") and commit 9a5e08652dc4b ("ocfs2: use an array of folios instead of an array of pages") save -ENOMEM in the folio array upon allocation failure and call the folio array free code. The folio array free code expects either valid folio pointers or NULL. Finding the -ENOMEM will result in a panic. Fix by NULLing the error folio entry.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0013
EPSS Percentile 2.9%
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-476
Status published
Products (9)
linux/Kernel 6.14.0 - 6.14.7linux
Linux/Linux < 6.14
Linux/Linux 6.14
Linux/Linux 6.14.7 - 6.14.*
Linux/Linux 6.15
Linux/Linux 7e119cff9d0a21e39e53c7d27addc31f4b8c0000 - 31d4cd4eb2f8d9b87ebfa6a5e443a59e3b3d7b8c
Linux/Linux 7e119cff9d0a21e39e53c7d27addc31f4b8c0000 - 80d18f060d5bdf2c5eb3d1d00dcb744d6a879222
linux/linux_kernel 6.15 rc1 (5 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 6.14 - 6.14.7
Published May 20, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026