CVE-2025-38534
MEDIUMLinux Kernel 6.14-6.15.7 - Denial of Service via NetFS Copy-to-Cache Request Handling
Title source: llmDescription
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfs: Fix copy-to-cache so that it performs collection with ceph+fscache The netfs copy-to-cache that is used by Ceph with local caching sets up a new request to write data just read to the cache. The request is started and then left to look after itself whilst the app continues. The request gets notified by the backing fs upon completion of the async DIO write, but then tries to wake up the app because NETFS_RREQ_OFFLOAD_COLLECTION isn't set - but the app isn't waiting there, and so the request just hangs. Fix this by setting NETFS_RREQ_OFFLOAD_COLLECTION which causes the notification from the backing filesystem to put the collection onto a work queue instead.
References (2)
Core 2
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0013
EPSS Percentile
2.8%
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 (9)
linux/Kernel
6.14.0 - 6.15.8linux
Linux/Linux
< 6.14
Linux/Linux
6.14
Linux/Linux
6.15.8 - 6.15.*
Linux/Linux
6.16
Linux/Linux
e2d46f2ec332533816417b60933954173f602121 - 1ebe58cef84eab22b41b4d5e72c2051ebf00af50
Linux/Linux
e2d46f2ec332533816417b60933954173f602121 - 4c238e30774e3022a505fa54311273add7570f13
linux/linux_kernel
6.16 rc1 (6 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel
6.14 - 6.15.8
Published
Aug 16, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026