CVE-2025-40203 (GCVE-0-2025-40203)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-12 21:56 – Updated: 2025-12-01 06:20
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: listmount: don't call path_put() under namespace semaphore Massage listmount() and make sure we don't call path_put() under the namespace semaphore. If we put the last reference we're fscked.
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Linux Linux Affected: b4c2bea8ceaa50cd42a8f73667389d801a3ecf2d , < 659874b7ee4976ad9ce476e07fd36bc67b3537f1 (git)
Affected: b4c2bea8ceaa50cd42a8f73667389d801a3ecf2d , < 9c80da26fda2fdcaac7f92b5908875b3108830ff (git)
Affected: b4c2bea8ceaa50cd42a8f73667389d801a3ecf2d , < c1f86d0ac322c7e77f6f8dbd216c65d39358ffc0 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 6.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.54 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.4 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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