CVE-2025-71230: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hfs: ensure sb->s_fs_info is always cleaned up When hfs was converted to the new mount api a bug was introduced by changing the allocation pattern of sb->s_fs_info. If setup_bdev_super() fails after a new superblock has been allocated by sget_fc(), but before hfs_fill_super() takes ownership of the filesystem-specific s_fs_info data it was leaked. Fix this by freeing sb->s_fs_info in hfs_kill_super().

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 6.13, before 6.18.11 (fixed in 6.18.11); from 6.19, before 6.19.1 (fixed in 6.19.1)

Published 2026-02-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.