CVE-2025-71295
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fs/buffer: add alert in try_to_free_buffers() for folios without buffers
try_to_free_buffers() can be called on folios with no buffers attached when filemap_release_folio() is invoked on a folio belonging to a mapping with AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS set but no release_folio operation defined.
In such cases, folio_needs_release() returns true because of the AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS flag, but the folio has no private buffer data. This causes try_to_free_buffers() to call drop_buffers() on a folio with no buffers, leading to a null pointer dereference.
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Adding a check in try_to_free_buffers() to return early if the folio has no buffers attached, with WARN_ON_ONCE() to alert about the misconfiguration. This provides defensive hardening.
CVSS
- Versión: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Puntuación base: 5.5
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.12%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 2
- Fecha de la puntuación: 5/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Tecnologías afectadas (1)
CWE
- CWE-476
Referencias
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b111a69a6e33a922622bf9870e4e63fb2b649c8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/42c32d7571ccd8ef32351cac506f00b0fae99fd2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/727e5140e0cf83b4ce6a11b89bb73bff5d96f8f3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b68f91ef3b3fe82ad78c417de71b675699a8467c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c1b6227555c52781178132b7a06466711855795c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6246ca15999053d2632fbcc7b86e6eef7f077cb
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