CVE-2025-37950
kernel: ocfs2: fix panic in failed foilio allocation
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · May 20, 2025
Updated · June 30, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ocfs2: fix panic in failed foilio allocation
commit 7e119cff9d0a ("ocfs2: convert w_pages to w_folios") and commit 9a5e08652dc4b ("ocfs2: use an array of folios instead of an array of pages") save -ENOMEM in the folio array upon allocation failure and call the folio array free code.
The folio array free code expects either valid folio pointers or NULL. Finding the -ENOMEM will result in a panic. Fix by NULLing the error folio entry.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-843 · Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')