CVE-2025-71184 Affecting kernel-uek-doc package, versions <0:6.12.0-109.67.6.el9uek


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (7th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE9-KERNELUEKDOC-15468833
  • published12 Mar 2026
  • disclosed31 Jan 2026

Introduced: 31 Jan 2026

CVE-2025-71184  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:9 kernel-uek-doc to version 0:6.12.0-109.67.6.el9uek or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2026-50144.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-uek-doc package and not the kernel-uek-doc package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

btrfs: fix NULL dereference on root when tracing inode eviction

When evicting an inode the first thing we do is to setup tracing for it, which implies fetching the root's id. But in btrfs_evict_inode() the root might be NULL, as implied in the next check that we do in btrfs_evict_inode().

Hence, we either should set the ->root_objectid to 0 in case the root is NULL, or we move tracing setup after checking that the root is not NULL. Setting the rootid to 0 at least gives us the possibility to trace this call even in the case when the root is NULL, so that's the solution taken here.

CVSS Base Scores

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