CVE-2025-39743: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: jfs: truncate good inode pages when hard link is 0 The fileset value of the inode copy from the disk by the reproducer is AGGR_RESERVED_I. When executing evict, its hard link number is 0, so its inode pages are not truncated. This causes the bugon to be triggered when executing clear_inode() because nrpages is greater than 0.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 11.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: from 2.6.14, before 5.4.297 (fixed in 5.4.297); from 5.5, before 5.10.241 (fixed in 5.10.241); from 5.11, before 5.15.190 (fixed in 5.15.190); from 5.16, before 6.1.149 (fixed in 6.1.149); from 6.2, before 6.6.103 (fixed in 6.6.103); from 6.7, before 6.12.43 (fixed in 6.12.43); …

Published 2025-09-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.