CVE-2025-71268Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime in Linux

Severity
3.3LOW
No vector
EPSS
0.0%
top 93.68%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMar 18

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix reservation leak in some error paths when inserting inline extent If we fail to allocate a path or join a transaction, we return from __cow_file_range_inline() without freeing the reserved qgroup data, resulting in a leak. Fix this by ensuring we call btrfs_qgroup_free_data() in such cases.

Affected Packages3 packages

Linuxlinux/linux_kernel4.4.06.1.163+3
Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 6.1.164-1+2
CVEListV5linux/linux94ed938aba557aa798acf496f09afb289b619fcdf7156512c8166d385f574b9ec030479aa7b1e8c9+5

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
CVEList
btrfs: fix reservation leak in some error paths when inserting inline extent2026-03-18
OSV
btrfs: fix reservation leak in some error paths when inserting inline extent2026-03-18
OSV
CVE-2025-71268: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix reservation leak in some error paths when inserting inline extent If we2026-03-18
GHSA
GHSA-62m8-jj4j-qm8p: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix reservation leak in some error paths when inserting inline extent If2026-03-18

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: btrfs: fix reservation leak in some error paths when inserting inline extent2026-03-18
Debian
CVE-2025-71268: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix ...2025

🕵️Threat Intelligence

1
Wiz
CVE-2025-71268 Impact, Exploitability, and Mitigation Steps | Wiz
CVE-2025-71268 — Linux vulnerability | cvebase