CVE-2025-71268: 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: btrfs: fix reservation leak in some error paths when inserting inline extent If we fail to allocate a path or join a transaction, we return from __cow_file_range_inline() without freeing the reserved qgroup data, resulting in a leak. Fix this by ensuring we call btrfs_qgroup_free_data() in such cases.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.4, before 6.1.163 (fixed in 6.1.163); from 6.2, before 6.6.124 (fixed in 6.6.124); from 6.7, before 6.12.70 (fixed in 6.12.70); from 6.13, before 6.18.10 (fixed in 6.18.10); version 6.19 only

Published 2026-03-18. Last modified 2026-07-30.