Tracker / CVE-2025-71292
CVE-2025-71292
High 7.5
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: jfs: nlink overflow in jfs_rename If nlink is maximal for a directory (-1) and inside that directory you perform a rename for some child directory (not moving from the parent), then the nlink of the first directory is first incremented and later decremented. Normally this is fine, but when nlink = -1 this causes a wrap around to 0, and then drop_nlink issues a warning. After applying the patch syzbot no longer issues any warnings. I also ran some basic fs tests to look for any regressions.
Affected products and versions
| linux | linux_kernel |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel · 2.6.12.1 → 5.10.252 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.202 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.165 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.13 → 6.18.16 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.19 → 6.19.6 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.128 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.12.75 |
Analysis
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