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TI-2025-43368 Aliases CVE-2025-71237GHSA-m34c-wrf8-mw69

nilfs2: Fix potential block overflow that cause system hang

Priority LOW 24Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Local
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · None · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA.

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nilfs2: Fix potential block overflow that cause system hang When a user executes the FITRIM command, an underflow can occur when calculating nblocks if end_block is too small. Since nblocks is of type sector_t, which is u64, a negative nblocks value will become a very large positive integer. This ultimately leads to the block layer function __blkdev_issue_discard() taking an excessively long time to process the bio chain, and the ns_segctor_sem lock remains held for a long period. This prevents other tasks from acquiring the ns_segctor_sem lock, resulting in the hang reported by syzbot in [1]. If the ending block is too small, typically if it is smaller than 4KiB range, depending on the usage of the segment 0, it may be possible to attempt a discard request beyond the device size causing the hang. Exiting successfully and assign the discarded size (0 in this case) to range->len. Although the start and len values in the user input range are too small, a conservative strategy is adopted here to safely ignore them, which is equivalent to a no-op; it will not perform any trimming and will not throw an error. [1] task:segctord state:D stack:28968 pid:6093 tgid:6093 ppid:2 task_flags:0x200040 flags:0x00080000 Call Trace: rwbase_write_lock+0x3dd/0x750 kernel/locking/rwbase_rt.c:272 nilfs_transaction_lock+0x253/0x4c0 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:357 nilfs_segctor_thread_construct fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2569 [inline] nilfs_segctor_thread+0x6ec/0xe00 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2684 [ryusuke: corrected part of the commit message about the consequences]

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.00139 3rd percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed Linux (Linux): 5.10.251, 5.15.201, 6.1.164 +5

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
LinuxLinux3.15 and later5.10.251, 5.15.201, 6.1.164, 6.6.125, 6.12.72, 6.18.11, 6.19.1, 7.0Patch availableCNA
  • Linux VendorLinux Affected 3.15 and later Fixed in 5.10.251, 5.15.201, 6.1.164, 6.6.125, 6.12.72, 6.18.11, 6.19.1, 7.0 Patch available CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*3.15 to before 5.10.251; 5.11 to before 5.15.201; 5.16 to before 6.1.164; 6.2 to before 6.6.125; 6.7 to before 6.12.72; 6.13 to before 6.18.11; 6.19 to before 6.19.1VulnerableLinux
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 3.15 to before 5.10.251; 5.11 to before 5.15.201; 5.16 to before 6.1.164; 6.2 to before 6.6.125; 6.7 to before 6.12.72; 6.13 to before 6.18.11; 6.19 to before 6.19.1 Vulnerable ·Linux

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 5.10.251, 5.15.201, 6.1.164, 6.6.125, 6.12.72, 6.18.11, 6.19.1, 7.0

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

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Not affected: 5 products
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-71237
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-m34c-wrf8-mw69

References

  • TI-2025-26358 tls: fix handling of zero-length records on the rx_list KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2026-38352 netfilter: bridge: make ebt_snat ARP rewrite writable KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2013-05264 The (1) get_user and (2) put_user API functions in the Linux kernel before 3.5.5 on the… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2022-00125 Integer overflow in kernel KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.4
  • TI-2013-01864 The perf_swevent_init function in kernel/events/core.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.9… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.4
  • TI-2021-05514 Heap Out-Of-Bounds Write in Netfilter IP6T_SO_SET_REPLACE KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.3
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