CVE-2025-21830: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: landlock: Handle weird files A corrupted filesystem (e.g. bcachefs) might return weird files. Instead of throwing a warning and allowing access to such file, treat them as regular files.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.13, before 5.15.179 (fixed in 5.15.179); from 5.16, before 6.1.129 (fixed in 6.1.129); from 6.2, before 6.6.76 (fixed in 6.6.76); from 6.7, before 6.12.13 (fixed in 6.12.13); from 6.13, before 6.13.2 (fixed in 6.13.2)

Published 2025-03-06. Last modified 2026-07-30.