# 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. - Web page: https://patchblox.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-38615 - Priority: High - CVSS: 9.8 (medium) - EPSS: 0.0018 - CISA KEV: not listed - Exploited (vendor report): no - Publicly disclosed: no - Published: Aug 19, 2025 - Vendor advisory: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-38615 ## Description 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 | Platform | Product | Fixed in | Fix | Released | |---|---|---|---|---| | Linux | bpftool6.12 amzn 2023 | 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2025-1208](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2025-1208.md) | Sep 23, 2025 | | Linux | bpftool6.12-debuginfo amzn 2023 | 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2025-1208](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2025-1208.md) | Sep 23, 2025 | | Linux | kernel-livepatch-6.12.46-66.121 amzn 2023 | 1:1.0-0.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2025-1208](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2025-1208.md) | Sep 23, 2025 | | Linux | kernel6.12 amzn 2023 | 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2025-1208](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2025-1208.md) | Sep 23, 2025 | | Linux | kernel6.12-debuginfo amzn 2023 | 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2025-1208](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2025-1208.md) | Sep 23, 2025 | | Linux | kernel6.12-debuginfo-common-aarch64 amzn 2023 | 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2025-1208](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2025-1208.md) | Sep 23, 2025 | | Linux | kernel6.12-debuginfo-common-x86_64 amzn 2023 | 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2025-1208](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2025-1208.md) | Sep 23, 2025 | | Linux | kernel6.12-devel amzn 2023 | 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2025-1208](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2025-1208.md) | Sep 23, 2025 | | Linux | kernel6.12-headers amzn 2023 | 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2025-1208](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2025-1208.md) | Sep 23, 2025 | | Linux | kernel6.12-libbpf amzn 2023 | 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2025-1208](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2025-1208.md) | Sep 23, 2025 | | Linux | kernel6.12-libbpf-debuginfo amzn 2023 | 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2025-1208](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2025-1208.md) | Sep 23, 2025 | | Linux | kernel6.12-libbpf-devel amzn 2023 | 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2025-1208](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2025-1208.md) | Sep 23, 2025 | | Linux | kernel6.12-libbpf-static amzn 2023 | 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2025-1208](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2025-1208.md) | Sep 23, 2025 | | Linux | kernel6.12-modules-extra amzn 2023 | 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2025-1208](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2025-1208.md) | Sep 23, 2025 | | Linux | kernel6.12-modules-extra-common amzn 2023 | 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2025-1208](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2025-1208.md) | Sep 23, 2025 | | Linux | kernel6.12-tools amzn 2023 | 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2025-1208](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2025-1208.md) | Sep 23, 2025 | | Linux | kernel6.12-tools-debuginfo amzn 2023 | 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2025-1208](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2025-1208.md) | Sep 23, 2025 | | Linux | kernel6.12-tools-devel amzn 2023 | 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2025-1208](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2025-1208.md) | Sep 23, 2025 | | Linux | linux Debian 13.5 (trixie) | 6.12.43-1 | [DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38615](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/debian-cve-2025-38615.md) | Aug 19, 2025 | | Linux | linux Debian 14 | 6.16.3-1 | [DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38615](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/debian-cve-2025-38615.md) | Aug 19, 2025 | | Linux | perf6.12 amzn 2023 | 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2025-1208](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2025-1208.md) | Sep 23, 2025 | | Linux | perf6.12-debuginfo amzn 2023 | 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2025-1208](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2025-1208.md) | Sep 23, 2025 | | Linux | python3-perf6.12 amzn 2023 | 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2025-1208](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2025-1208.md) | Sep 23, 2025 | | Linux | python3-perf6.12-debuginfo amzn 2023 | 1:6.12.46-66.121.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2025-1208](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2025-1208.md) | Sep 23, 2025 | --- Data as of 2026-11-09T01:18:40Z UTC. 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