CVE-2025-37983

Updated on 20 May 2025

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

qibfs: fix another leak

failure to allocate inode => leaked dentry…

this one had been there since the initial merge; to be fair, if we are that far OOM, the odds of failing at that particular allocation are low…

Details

Affected packages:
linux-hwe @ 4.15.0 (+15 more)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

qibfs: fix another leak

failure to allocate inode => leaked dentry…

this one had been there since the initial merge; to be fair, if we are that far OOM, the odds of failing at that particular allocation are low…

Fixes