CVE-2025-37839: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: jbd2: remove wrong sb->s_sequence check Journal emptiness is not determined by sb->s_sequence == 0 but rather by sb->s_start == 0 (which is set a few lines above). Furthermore 0 is a valid transaction ID so the check can spuriously trigger. Remove the invalid WARN_ON.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 11.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: before 5.4.293 (fixed in 5.4.293); from 5.5, before 5.10.237 (fixed in 5.10.237); from 5.11, before 5.15.181 (fixed in 5.15.181); from 5.16, before 6.1.135 (fixed in 6.1.135); from 6.2, before 6.6.88 (fixed in 6.6.88); from 6.7, before 6.12.24 (fixed in 6.12.24); …

Published 2025-05-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.