CVE-2025-38615

fs/ntfs3: cancle set bad inode after removing name fails

CVE-2025-38615 is fixed in 23 products on 1 platform, first by DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38615, released August 19, 2025. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

High
CVSS
9.8
medium
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0018
7th percentile

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: cancle set bad inode after removing name fails The reproducer uses a file0 on a ntfs3 file system with a corrupted i_link. When renaming, the file0's inode is marked as a bad inode because the file name cannot be deleted. The underlying bug is that make_bad_inode() is called on a live inode. In some cases it's "icache lookup finds a normal inode, d_splice_alias() is called to attach it to dentry, while another thread decides to call make_bad_inode() on it - that would evict it from icache, but we'd already found it there earlier". In some it's outright "we have an inode attached to dentry - that's how we got it in the first place; let's call make_bad_inode() on it just for shits and giggles".

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
bpftool6.12 · amzn 2023 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1208 Sep 23, 2025
bpftool6.12-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1208 Sep 23, 2025
kernel-livepatch-6.12.46-66.121 · amzn 2023 1:1.0-0.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1208 Sep 23, 2025
kernel6.12 · amzn 2023 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1208 Sep 23, 2025
kernel6.12-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1208 Sep 23, 2025
kernel6.12-debuginfo-common-aarch64 · amzn 2023 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1208 Sep 23, 2025
kernel6.12-debuginfo-common-x86_64 · amzn 2023 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1208 Sep 23, 2025
kernel6.12-devel · amzn 2023 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1208 Sep 23, 2025
kernel6.12-headers · amzn 2023 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1208 Sep 23, 2025
kernel6.12-libbpf · amzn 2023 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1208 Sep 23, 2025
kernel6.12-libbpf-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1208 Sep 23, 2025
kernel6.12-libbpf-devel · amzn 2023 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1208 Sep 23, 2025
kernel6.12-libbpf-static · amzn 2023 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1208 Sep 23, 2025
kernel6.12-modules-extra · amzn 2023 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1208 Sep 23, 2025
kernel6.12-modules-extra-common · amzn 2023 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1208 Sep 23, 2025
kernel6.12-tools · amzn 2023 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1208 Sep 23, 2025
kernel6.12-tools-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1208 Sep 23, 2025
kernel6.12-tools-devel · amzn 2023 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1208 Sep 23, 2025
linux · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 6.12.43-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38615 Aug 19, 2025
linux · Debian 14 6.16.3-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38615 Aug 19, 2025
perf6.12 · amzn 2023 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1208 Sep 23, 2025
perf6.12-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1208 Sep 23, 2025
python3-perf6.12 · amzn 2023 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1208 Sep 23, 2025
python3-perf6.12-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1208 Sep 23, 2025

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