CVE-2025-40203

medium

Description

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.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c1f86d0ac322c7e77f6f8dbd216c65d39358ffc0

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c80da26fda2fdcaac7f92b5908875b3108830ff

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/659874b7ee4976ad9ce476e07fd36bc67b3537f1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-11-12

Updated: 2025-11-14

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00017