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high 7.5

CVE-2025-71268 json

btrfs: fix reservation leak in some error paths when inserting inline extent

published 2026-03-18 7 mo ago modified 2026-10-19 20 d ago also EUVD-2025-208840

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 25%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

btrfs: fix reservation leak in some error paths when inserting inline extent

If we fail to allocate a path or join a transaction, we return from __cow_file_range_inline() without freeing the reserved qgroup data, resulting in a leak. Fix this by ensuring we call btrfs_qgroup_free_data() in such cases.

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 6.1.163, 6.6.124, 6.12.70, 6.18.10, 6.19
  • linux Debian 12 6.1.164-1
  • linux Debian 13 6.12.73-1
  • linux Debian 14 6.18.10-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-71268

  • linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-117.117
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1055.58
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1058.61
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1054.60
  • linux-ibm Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1055.56
  • linux-azure Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1056.62
  • linux-gkeop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1041.44
  • linux-raspi Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1056.60

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71268

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kernel-syms Linux Micro Extras 6.2 6.12.0-160000.33.1
  • kernel-obs-build Linux Micro Extras 6.2 6.12.0-160000.33.1
  • kernel-rt Real Time Module 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.7.37.2
  • kernel-syms-rt Real Time Module 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.7.37.1
  • kernel-source-rt Real Time Module 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.7.37.2
  • kernel-rt Linux Micro 6.1 6.4.0-41.1
  • kernel-source-rt Linux Micro 6.1 6.4.0-41.1
  • kernel-source Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-41.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:21834-1SUSE-SU-2026:1573-1SUSE-SU-2026:21255-1SUSE-SU-2026:21123-1SUSE-SU-2026:21114-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-71268 updated cvss 3.3

kernel: btrfs: fix reservation leak in some error paths when inserting inline extent

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
23 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 25% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-772 Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime
  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
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References

Sources

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