Use After Free Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [5.15,6.1.191)[6.2,6.6.91)[6.7,6.12.29)[6.13,6.14.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.37% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-20699306
  • published10 Oct 2026
  • disclosed20 May 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 May 2025

CVE-2025-37952  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.1.191, 6.6.91, 6.12.29, 6.14.7 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free via the __close_file_table_ids process. An attacker can achieve arbitrary kernel memory read and write, control kernel memory allocation, and potentially hijack control flow by exploiting a race condition between file destruction and reference acquisition, allowing use of freed memory. This can result in system crashes or full compromise of the affected system by sending crafted SMB2 requests over the network.

Note: The Linux kernel project assigns a CVE to every bug fix it ships, whether or not the bug has been shown to be exploitable. This advisory was generated from that process and has not been individually assessed for exploitability. See the kernel's CVE process documentation: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/cve.rst

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1