CVE-2025-38615

fs/ntfs3: cancle set bad inode after removing name fails

MEDIUM
5.5
CVSS Score
Published: August 19, 2025 at 05:03 PM UTC
Updated: October 30, 2026 at 01:18 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
MEDIUM5.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: cancle set bad inode after removing name fails The reproducer uses a file0 on a ntfs3 file system with a corrupted i_link. When renaming, the file0's inode is marked as a bad inode because the file name cannot be deleted. The underlying bug is that make_bad_inode() is called on a live inode. In some cases it's "icache lookup finds a normal inode, d_splice_alias() is called to attach it to dentry, while another thread decides to call make_bad_inode() on it - that would evict it from icache, but we'd already found it there earlier". In some it's outright "we have an inode attached to dentry - that's how we got it in the first place; let's call make_bad_inode() on it just for shits and giggles".

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

5.15 ≤ v < 6.6.1026.13 ≤ v < 6.15.106.16 ≤ v < 6.16.16.7 ≤ v < 6.12.425.1578ab59fee07f22464f32eafebab2bd97ba94ff2d
Vendor states this is fixed in 358d4f821c03add421a4c49290538a705852ccf1 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 3ed2cc6a6e93fbeb8c0cafce1e7fb1f64a331dcc (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in a285395020780adac1ffbc844069c3d700bf007a (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in b35a50d639ca5259466ef5fea85529bb4fb17d5b (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in d99208b91933fd2a58ed9ed321af07dacd06ddc3 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.191 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.42 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.15.10 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.16.1 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.17 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.102 (unaffected)

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-noinfo

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