CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-37950
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-05-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ocfs2: fix panic in failed foilio allocation
commit 7e119cff9d0a ("ocfs2: convert w_pages to w_folios") and commit
9a5e08652dc4b ("ocfs2: use an array of folios instead of an array of
pages") save -ENOMEM in the folio array upon allocation failure and call
the folio array free code.
The folio array free code expects either valid folio pointers or NULL.
Finding the -ENOMEM will result in a panic. Fix by NULLing the error
folio entry.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.14 < 6.14.7)
• linux linux kernel 6.15
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness