CVE-2025-22071 spufs: fix a leak in spufs_create_context()

What is CVE-2025-22071?

CVE-2025-22071 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 16 Apr 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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

spufs: fix a leak in spufs_create_context()

Leak fixes back in 2008 missed one case - if we are trying to set affinity and spufs_mkdir() fails, we need to drop the reference to neighbor.

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-22071?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2025-22071?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2025-22071 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-22071 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BELL-CVE-2025-22071, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-22071, GHSA-r24q-wpfh-2vqx, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2025-22071, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-22071, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-22071.