Vulnerabilities

Vulnerability · CVE-2025-23150

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix off-by-one error in do_split Syzkaller detected a use-after-free issue in ext4_insert_dentry that was

Published May 1, 2025 · catalog updated Aug 5, 2026 · Linux Linux

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CVE-2025-23150 is not in CISA KEV. FIRST estimates a 23.00% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Check whether you run Linux Linux.

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Severity
High7.8
Known exploitation
Not in CISA/VulnCheck KEV
EPSS
23.00%
Remediation
Vendor / distro source
Affected products
vendor Linux Linux patch: 0

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix off-by-one error in do_split Syzkaller detected a use-after-free issue in ext4_insert_dentry that was caused by out-of-bounds access due to incorrect splitting in do_split. BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ext4_insert_dentry+0x36a/0x6d0 fs/ext4/namei.c:2109 Write of size 251 at addr ffff888074572f14 by task syz-executor335/5847 CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5847 Comm: syz-executor335 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc6-syzkaller-00318-ga9cda7c0ffed #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/30/2024 Cal

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How to fix CVE-2025-23150

What to do

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Should you patch?

CVE-2025-23150 is not in CISA KEV. FIRST estimates a 23.00% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Check whether you run Linux Linux.

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What should an analyst verify?

No weakness class is stored. EPSS 23.00%. There is no CISA KEV listing. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.

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Timeline

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  1. May 1, 2025 · EUVD

    Detected

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix off-by-one error in do_split Syzkaller detected a use-after-free issue in ext4_insert_dentry that was caused by out-of-bounds access due to incorrect splitting in do_split. BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ext4_insert_dentry+0x36a/0x6d0 fs/ext4/namei.c:2109 Write of size 251 at addr ffff888074572f14 by task syz-executor335/

  2. Aug 5, 2026 · EUVD

    Updated

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix off-by-one error in do_split Syzkaller detected a use-after-free issue in ext4_insert_dentry that was caused by out-of-bounds access due to incorrect splitting in do_split. BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ext4_insert_dentry+0x36a/0x6d0 fs/ext4/namei.c:2109 Write of size 251 at addr ffff888074572f14 by task syz-executor335/

Sources

  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2025-23150

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • EUVDVulnerability recordEUVD-2025-13093

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix off-by-one error in do_split Syzkaller detected a use-after-free issue in ext4_insert_dentry that was caused by out-of-bounds access due to incorrect splitting in do_split. BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in

    euvd.enisa.europa.eu

References

Freshness

Last verified in this catalog Oct 17, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.