CVE-2025-71183 — Improper Handling of Inconsistent Special Elements in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 98.82%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJan 31
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: always detect conflicting inodes when logging inode refs
After rename exchanging (either with the rename exchange operation or
regular renames in multiple non-atomic steps) two inodes and at least
one of them is a directory, we can end up with a log tree that contains
only of the inodes and after a power failure that can result in an attempt
to delete the other inode when it should not because it was not deleted
before …
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages6 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux56f23fdbb600e6087db7b009775b95ce07cc3195 — c7f0207db68d5a1b4af23acbef1a8e8ddc431ebb+9
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
3OSV▶
CVE-2025-71183: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: always detect conflicting inodes when logging inode refs After rename excha↗2026-01-31
GHSA▶
GHSA-jrg6-qwp6-f549: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: always detect conflicting inodes when logging inode refs
After rename exc↗2026-01-31