CVE-2025-71149

medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring/poll: correctly handle io_poll_add() return value on update When the core of io_uring was updated to handle completions consistently and with fixed return codes, the POLL_REMOVE opcode with updates got slightly broken. If a POLL_ADD is pending and then POLL_REMOVE is used to update the events of that request, if that update causes the POLL_ADD to now trigger, then that completion is lost and a CQE is never posted. Additionally, ensure that if an update does cause an existing POLL_ADD to complete, that the completion value isn't always overwritten with -ECANCELED. For that case, whatever io_poll_add() set the value to should just be retained.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c1669c03bfbc2a9b5ebff4428eecebe734c646fe

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8b777ab48441b153502772ecfc78c107d4353f29

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/84230ad2d2afbf0c44c32967e525c0ad92e26b4e

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/13a8f7b88c2d40c6b33f6216190478dda95d385f

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0126560370ed5217958b85657b590ad25e8b9c00

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-01-23

Updated: 2026-01-23

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.6

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00018