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CVE-2025-38247

userns and mnt_idmap leak in open_tree_attr(2) PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: userns and mnt_idmap leak in open_tree_attr(2) Once want_mount_setattr() has returned a positive, it does require finish_mount_kattr() to release ->mnt_userns. Failing do_mount_setattr() does not change that. As the result, we can end up leaking userns and possibly mnt_idmap as well.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected c4a16820d90199409c9bf01c4f794e1e9e8d8fd8 before 142db4e76110dd80239f4e79810f85ea1735ad60; affected c4a16820d90199409c9bf01c4f794e1e9e8d8fd8 before 0748e553df0225754c316a92af3a77fdc057b358
Linux / Linuxaffected 6.15; unaffected 0 before 6.15; unaffected 6.15.5 through 6.15.*; unaffected 6.16 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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