Vulnerability · Published Jan 13, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2025-71072shmem: fix recovery on rename failures

High 8.2

In plain English

A high-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 0.4% (higher than 30% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)8.2High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 70.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: shmem: fix recovery on rename failures maple_tree insertions can fail if we are seriously short on memory; simple_offset_rename() does not recover well if it runs into that. The same goes for simple_offset_rename_exchange(). Moreover, shmem_whiteout() expects that if it succeeds, the caller will progress to d_move(), i.e. that shmem_rename2() won't fail past the successful call of shmem_whiteout(). Not hard to fix, fortunately - mtree_store() can't fail if the index we are trying to store into is already present in the tree as a singleton. For simple_offset_rename_exchange() that's enough - we just need to be careful about the order of operations. For simple_offset_rename() solution is to preinsert the target into the tree for new_dir; the rest can be done without any potentially failing operations. That preinsertion has to be done in shmem_rename2() rather than in simple_offset_rename() itself - otherwise we'd need to deal with the possibility of failure after successful shmem_whiteout().

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:10kernel6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-64k6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-64k-core6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-64k-debug6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-64k-debug-core6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-64k-debug-devel6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-64k-debug-devel-matched6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-64k-debug-modules6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-64k-debug-modules-core6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-64k-debug-modules-extra6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-64k-devel6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-64k-devel-matched6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-64k-modules6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-64k-modules-core6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-64k-modules-extra6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-abi-stablelists6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-core6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-cross-headers6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-debug6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-debug-core6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-debug-devel6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-debug-devel-matched6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-debug-modules6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-debug-modules-core6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-debug-modules-extra6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-debug-uki-virt6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-devel6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-devel-matched6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-doc6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-headers6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-modules6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-modules-core6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-modules-extra6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-modules-extra-matched6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-64k6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-64k-core6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-64k-debug6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-64k-debug-core6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-64k-debug-devel6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-64k-debug-modules6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-64k-debug-modules-core6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-64k-debug-modules-extra6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-64k-devel6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-64k-modules6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-64k-modules-core6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-64k-modules-extra6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-core6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-debug6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-debug-core6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-debug-devel6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-debug-modules6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-debug-modules-core6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-devel6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-modules6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-modules-core6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-modules-extra6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-tools6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-tools-libs6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-tools-libs-devel6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-uki-virt6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-uki-virt-addons6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-zfcpdump6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-zfcpdump-core6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-zfcpdump-devel6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-zfcpdump-devel-matched6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-zfcpdump-modules6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-zfcpdump-modules-core6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10kernel-zfcpdump-modules-extra6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10libperf6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10perf6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10python3-perf6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10rtla6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
AlmaLinux:10rv6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2ALSA-2026:53330
Debian:13linux6.12.69-1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-71072
Debian:14linux6.18.3-1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-71072
Rocky Linux:10kernel0:6.12.0-211.46.1.el10_2RLSA-2026:53330
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux6.8.0-110.110UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:25.10linux6.17.0-22.22UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws6.8.0-1052.55UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:25.10linux-aws6.17.0-1012.12UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.176.17.0-1012.12~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.86.8.0-1052.55~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure6.8.0-1054.60UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:25.10linux-azure6.17.0-1013.13UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.176.17.0-1013.13~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.86.8.0-1059.65~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde6.8.0-1058.65UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:25.10linux-azure-fdeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.86.8.0-1058.65~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-nvidiano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-nvidia-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp6.8.0-1054.57UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:25.10linux-gcp6.17.0-1012.12UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.176.17.0-1012.12~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.86.8.0-1054.57~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gke6.8.0-1050.56UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gkeop6.8.0-1037.40UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.176.17.0-22.22~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.86.8.0-110.110~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-ibm6.8.0-1051.51UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm-6.86.8.0-1051.51~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency6.8.0-110.110.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.86.8.0-110.110.1~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia6.8.0-1051.54UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.176.17.0-1018.18UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.86.8.0-1051.54~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-lowlatency6.8.0-1051.54.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra6.8.0-1022.22UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.176.17.0-1020.20UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle6.8.0-1049.50UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:25.10linux-oracle6.17.0-1011.11UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.176.17.0-1011.11~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.86.8.0-1049.50~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi6.8.0-1052.56UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:25.10linux-raspi6.17.0-1013.13UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:25.10linux-realtime6.17.0-1010.11UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:25.10linux-riscv6.17.0-22.22.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.176.17.0-22.22.1~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.86.8.0-110.110~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-xilinx6.8.0-1028.29UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71072

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux a2e459555c5f9da3e619b7e47a63f98574dc75f1 – before 8fdbc6f9a994eb327868a4aa74a58953f31a2d0fa2e459555c5f9da3e619b7e47a63f98574dc75f1 – before 4b0fe71fb3965d0db83cdfc2f4fe0b3227d70113a2e459555c5f9da3e619b7e47a63f98574dc75f1 – before 4642686699a46718d7f2fb5acd1e9d866a9d9ccaa2e459555c5f9da3e619b7e47a63f98574dc75f1 – before e1b4c6a58304fd490124cc2b454d80edc786665c
Linux Linux 6.6

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