Memory Leak Affecting linux-virt package, versions <6.12.24-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (8th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-MINIMOSLATEST-LINUXVIRT-13804788
  • published2 Nov 2025
  • disclosed16 Apr 2025

Introduced: 16 Apr 2025

CVE-2025-22073  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Minimos:latest linux-virt to version 6.12.24-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream linux-virt package and not the linux-virt package as distributed by Minimos. See How to fix? for Minimos:latest relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

spufs: fix a leak on spufs_new_file() failure

It's called from spufs_fill_dir(), and caller of that will do spufs_rmdir() in case of failure. That does remove everything we'd managed to create, but... the problem dentry is still negative. IOW, it needs to be explicitly dropped.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1