CVE-2025-71230 hfs: ensure sb->s_fs_info is always cleaned up

What is CVE-2025-71230?

CVE-2025-71230 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 18 Feb 2026. 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:

hfs: ensure sb->s_fs_info is always cleaned up

When hfs was converted to the new mount api a bug was introduced by changing the allocation pattern of sb->s_fs_info. If setup_bdev_super() fails after a new superblock has been allocated by sget_fc(), but before hfs_fill_super() takes ownership of the filesystem-specific s_fs_info data it was leaked.

Fix this by freeing sb->s_fs_info in hfs_kill_super().

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-71230?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2025-71230?

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-2025-71230 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-71230 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2022-0185 Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2013-2094 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2026-53362 Linux Kernel Unspecified Exploited High 7.8

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BELL-CVE-2025-71230, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-71230, GHSA-6xrx-3vj8-2rjc, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2025-71230, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2025-71230, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-13-CVE-2025-71230 and 1 more.