CVE-2025-22073 (GCVE-0-2025-22073)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-16 14:12 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:12
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Title
spufs: fix a leak on spufs_new_file() failure
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: spufs: fix a leak on spufs_new_file() failure It's called from spufs_fill_dir(), and caller of that will do spufs_rmdir() in case of failure. That does remove everything we'd managed to create, but... the problem dentry is still negative. IOW, it needs to be explicitly dropped.
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Linux Linux Affected: 3f51dd91c80746a5cf76f8c4a77bfc88aa82bb9e , < b1eef06d10c1a9848e3a762919bbbe315a0a7cb4 (git)
Affected: 3f51dd91c80746a5cf76f8c4a77bfc88aa82bb9e , < 132925bd6772d7614340fb755ac5415462ac8edd (git)
Affected: 3f51dd91c80746a5cf76f8c4a77bfc88aa82bb9e , < 53b189651c33b5f1fb3b755e6a37a8206978514e (git)
Affected: 3f51dd91c80746a5cf76f8c4a77bfc88aa82bb9e , < 96de7fbdc2dcadeebc17c3cb89e7cdab487bfce0 (git)
Affected: 3f51dd91c80746a5cf76f8c4a77bfc88aa82bb9e , < 90d1b276d1b1379d20ad27d1f6349ba9f44a2e00 (git)
Affected: 3f51dd91c80746a5cf76f8c4a77bfc88aa82bb9e , < 35f789ccebd69f6f9a1e0a9b85435003b2450065 (git)
Affected: 3f51dd91c80746a5cf76f8c4a77bfc88aa82bb9e , < d791985ceeb081155b4e96d314ca54c7605dcbe0 (git)
Affected: 3f51dd91c80746a5cf76f8c4a77bfc88aa82bb9e , < 0bd56e4e72c354b65c0a7e5ac1c09eca81949d5b (git)
Affected: 3f51dd91c80746a5cf76f8c4a77bfc88aa82bb9e , < d1ca8698ca1332625d83ea0d753747be66f9906d (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.16 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.292 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.236 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.180 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.134 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.87 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.23 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.13.11 , ≤ 6.13.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.14.2 , ≤ 6.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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