CVE-2025-22073: 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 on spufs_new_file() failure It's called from spufs_fill_dir(), and caller of that will do spufs_rmdir() in case of failure. That does remove everything we'd managed to create, but... the problem dentry is still negative. IOW, it needs to be explicitly dropped.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 2.6.16, 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.