CVE-2025-22071: 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: spufs: fix a leak in spufs_create_context() Leak fixes back in 2008 missed one case - if we are trying to set affinity and spufs_mkdir() fails, we need to drop the reference to neighbor.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 2.6.25, before 5.4.292 (fixed in 5.4.292); from 5.5, before 5.10.236 (fixed in 5.10.236); from 5.11, before 5.15.180 (fixed in 5.15.180); from 5.16, before 6.1.134 (fixed in 6.1.134); from 6.2, before 6.6.87 (fixed in 6.6.87); from 6.7, before 6.12.23 (fixed in 6.12.23); …

Published 2025-04-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.