CVE-2025-40105 — Improper Update of Reference Count in Linux
Severity
7.8HIGHOSV
OSV5.5OSV3.2
No vectorEPSS
0.1%
top 77.17%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedOct 30
Latest updateApr 13
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vfs: Don't leak disconnected dentries on umount
When user calls open_by_handle_at() on some inode that is not cached, we
will create disconnected dentry for it. If such dentry is a directory,
exportfs_decode_fh_raw() will then try to connect this dentry to the
dentry tree through reconnect_path(). It may happen for various reasons
(such as corrupted fs or race with rename) that the call to
lookup_one_unlocked() in reconnect_on…