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CVE-2025-37950: Linux kernel · ocfs2: fix panic in failed foilio allocation

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Not known to be exploited · CVSS 5.5 Medium.

Data as of 13 Nov 2026, 19:22 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
5.5Medium
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 20 May 2025

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 13 Nov 2026.

What to do

AI-suggested

A fix for this vulnerability has been implemented in the Linux kernel as described in the referenced commits. Users should update to a kernel version that includes these fixes to prevent kernel panics related to ocfs2 folio allocation failures.

Description

CVE-2025-37950 is a vulnerability in the Linux kernel's ocfs2 filesystem code that could cause a kernel panic due to improper handling of memory allocation failures in folio arrays. The issue arises when an allocation failure returns an error pointer (-ENOMEM) instead of NULL, leading to a panic when the code attempts to free the folio array. This vulnerability has been fixed by ensuring that error folio entries are set to NULL to prevent the panic.

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