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"cveId": "CVE-2025-71159",
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"state": "PUBLISHED",
"assignerShortName": "Linux",
"dateReserved": "2026-01-13T15:30:19.665Z",
"datePublished": "2026-01-23T15:23:57.824Z",
"dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T12:12:25.188Z"
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"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: fix use-after-free warning in btrfs_get_or_create_delayed_node()\n\nPreviously, btrfs_get_or_create_delayed_node() set the delayed_node's\nrefcount before acquiring the root->delayed_nodes lock.\nCommit e8513c012de7 (\"btrfs: implement ref_tracker for delayed_nodes\")\nmoved refcount_set inside the critical section, which means there is\nno longer a memory barrier between setting the refcount and setting\nbtrfs_inode->delayed_node.\n\nWithout that barrier, the stores to node->refs and\nbtrfs_inode->delayed_node may become visible out of order. Another\nthread can then read btrfs_inode->delayed_node and attempt to\nincrement a refcount that hasn't been set yet, leading to a\nrefcounting bug and a use-after-free warning.\n\nThe fix is to move refcount_set back to where it was to take\nadvantage of the implicit memory barrier provided by lock\nacquisition.\n\nBecause the allocations now happen outside of the lock's critical\nsection, they can use GFP_NOFS instead of GFP_ATOMIC."
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"value": "AV:N - A remote attacker can reach the path through a writable Btrfs-backed ksmbd guest share: SMB2 WRITE reaches ksmbd_vfs_write(), kernel_write(), and the Btrfs ordered-write completion path. This is a reasonable network-facing Btrfs deployment.\nAC:L - Concurrent writes create multiple ordered extents whose parallel end-I/O workers can race while publishing and acquiring the same delayed node. The attacker controls the workload and can repeatedly create both sides of the race.\nPR:N - Although ksmbd checks the session, writable tree connection, and file handle, a guest-writable share grants these without attacker credentials. No prior account, capability, or local privilege is therefore required in that deployment.\nUI:N - The attacker directly triggers the race with concurrent write requests; no separate victim action is required.\nS:U - The vulnerable Btrfs code and the resulting kernel memory corruption are within the same host-kernel security authority.\nC:H - The lost reference can leave a delayed-node pointer usable after its slab object is freed and reused. Exploitation of this kernel use-after-free can expose arbitrary kernel memory.\nI:H - Subsequent mutex, flag, counter, tree, and inode-item operations write through the stale pointer. Heap reuse and spraying can turn these writes into kernel memory corruption and potential code execution.\nA:H - The observed refcount failure raises a kernel warning, and use of the prematurely freed delayed node can cause an oops, panic, hang, or filesystem shutdown."
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"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83f59076a1ae6f5c6845d6f7ed3a1a373d883684"
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