Vulnerability · Published Jan 31, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2025-71184btrfs: fix NULL dereference on root when tracing inode eviction

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.1% (higher than 3% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.1%top 96.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix NULL dereference on root when tracing inode eviction When evicting an inode the first thing we do is to setup tracing for it, which implies fetching the root's id. But in btrfs_evict_inode() the root might be NULL, as implied in the next check that we do in btrfs_evict_inode(). Hence, we either should set the ->root_objectid to 0 in case the root is NULL, or we move tracing setup after checking that the root is not NULL. Setting the rootid to 0 at least gives us the possibility to trace this call even in the case when the root is NULL, so that's the solution taken here.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12linuxno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2025-71184
Debian:13linux6.12.69-1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-71184
Debian:14linux6.18.8-1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinuxno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux6.8.0-117.117UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux6.8.0-117.117USN-8278-1
Ubuntu:25.10linuxno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-awsno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws6.8.0-1055.58UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws6.8.0-1055.58USN-8278-1
Ubuntu:25.10linux-awsno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.86.8.0-1057.60~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azureno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure6.8.0-1056.62USN-8278-2
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure6.8.0-1056.62UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:25.10linux-azureno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.176.17.0-1021.21~24.04.1USN-8604-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.176.17.0-1021.21~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.86.8.0-1059.65~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fdeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde6.8.0-1058.65UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:25.10linux-azure-fdeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.176.17.0-1018.18~24.04.1USN-8605-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.86.8.0-1058.65~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-nvidiano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-nvidia-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcpno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp6.8.0-1058.61UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp6.8.0-1058.61USN-8278-1
Ubuntu:25.10linux-gcpno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.176.17.0-1021.24~24.04.1USN-8570-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.176.17.0-1021.24~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.86.8.0-1060.63~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gke6.8.0-1054.60USN-8278-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gke6.8.0-1054.60UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeopno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gkeop6.8.0-1041.44UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gkeop6.8.0-1041.44USN-8278-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.176.17.0-41.41~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.86.8.0-124.124~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibmno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-ibm6.8.0-1055.56UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-ibm6.8.0-1055.56USN-8278-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm-6.86.8.0-1055.56~22.04.1USN-8278-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm-6.86.8.0-1055.56~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotgno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvmno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatencyno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency6.8.0-117.117.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency6.8.0-117.117.1USN-8278-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.86.8.0-117.117.1~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.86.8.0-117.117.1~22.04.1USN-8278-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidiano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia6.8.0-1054.57USN-8289-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia6.8.0-1054.57UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.176.17.0-1031.31USN-8669-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.176.17.0-1031.31UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.86.8.0-1054.57~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.86.8.0-1054.57~22.04.1USN-8289-2
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-lowlatency6.8.0-1054.57.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-lowlatency6.8.0-1054.57.1USN-8289-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegrano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra6.8.0-1024.24USN-8296-2
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra6.8.0-1024.24UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra-igxno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.176.17.0-1030.30USN-8594-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.176.17.0-1030.30UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracleno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle6.8.0-1054.55UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:25.10linux-oracleno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.176.17.0-1019.19~24.04.3USN-8570-2
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.176.17.0-1019.19~24.04.3UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.86.8.0-1054.55~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspino fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi6.8.0-1056.60USN-8278-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi6.8.0-1056.60UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:25.10linux-raspino fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:25.10linux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:25.10linux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.86.8.0-117.117~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-xilinx6.8.0-1032.33USN-8499-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-xilinx6.8.0-1032.33UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-xilinx-zynqmpno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71184

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux 1abe9b8a138c9988ba8f7bfded6453649a31541f – before 99181ddb124cfe2b09f5e924c308222d2339e82a1abe9b8a138c9988ba8f7bfded6453649a31541f – before 64d8abd8c5305795a2b35fc96039d99d34f5e7621abe9b8a138c9988ba8f7bfded6453649a31541f – before 582ba48e4a4c06fef6bdcf4e57b7b9af660bbd0c1abe9b8a138c9988ba8f7bfded6453649a31541f – before 99e057f3d3ef24b99a7b1d84e01dd1bd890098da1abe9b8a138c9988ba8f7bfded6453649a31541f – before f157dd661339fc6f5f2b574fe2429c43bd309534
Linux Linux 2.6.39

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