CVE-2025-38615

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.15-6.6.101, 6.7-6.12.41, 6.13-6.15.9, 6.16 - Denial of Service via NTFS3 Corrupted i_link Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: cancle set bad inode after removing name fails The reproducer uses a file0 on a ntfs3 file system with a corrupted i_link. When renaming, the file0's inode is marked as a bad inode because the file name cannot be deleted. The underlying bug is that make_bad_inode() is called on a live inode. In some cases it's "icache lookup finds a normal inode, d_splice_alias() is called to attach it to dentry, while another thread decides to call make_bad_inode() on it - that would evict it from icache, but we'd already found it there earlier". In some it's outright "we have an inode attached to dentry - that's how we got it in the first place; let's call make_bad_inode() on it just for shits and giggles".

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0015
EPSS Percentile 5.2%
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 (17)
linux/Kernel 5.15.0 - 6.6.102linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.15.10linux
linux/Kernel 6.16.0 - 6.16.1linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.42linux
Linux/Linux < 5.15
Linux/Linux 5.15
Linux/Linux 6.12.42 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.15.10 - 6.15.*
Linux/Linux 6.16.1 - 6.16.*
Linux/Linux 6.17
... and 7 more
Published Aug 19, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026