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DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38615

DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38615 PUBLISHED CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: cancle set bad inode after removing name fails The reproducer uses a file0 on a ntfs3 file system with a corrupted i_link. When renaming, the file0's inode is marked as a bad inode because the file name cannot be deleted. The underlying bug is that make_bad_inode() is called on a live inode. In some cases it's "icache lookup finds a normal inode, d_splice_alias() is called to attach it to dentry, while another thread decides to call make_bad_inode() on it - that would evict it from icache, but we'd already found it there earlier". In some it's outright "we have an inode attached to dentry - that's how we got it in the first place; let's call make_bad_inode() on it just for shits and giggles".

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.1
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:12linux6.13, 6.19.10-1, 6.19.10-1
Debian:14linux6.14.3-1, 6.12.41-1, 6.12.43-1
Debian:13linux6.12.41-1, 6.12.43-1, 6.12.38-1

Timeline

  • Aug 19, 2025 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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