5.5

CVE-2025-37983: qibfs: fix _another_ leak

Analyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2025-37983DEBIAN-CVE-2025-37983
Published 20-05-2025Last modified 11-05-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-37983 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in debian debian_linux. EPSS estimates a 0.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 9.1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 5.5, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.19%
0%100%
Low · +0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 43 · Related 40
DLA-4193-1MGASA-2025-0182MGASA-2025-0183SUSE-SU-2025:01964-1SUSE-SU-2025:01965-1SUSE-SU-2025:02000-1

Timeline

  1. 20-05-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: qibfs: fix _another_ leak failure to allocate inode => leaked dentry... this one had been there since the initial merge; to be fair, if we are that far OOM, the odds of failing at that particular allocation are low...

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.19%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

9%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

Increase +0.01 pp

From 0.19% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu141 products
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.15.0-144.157 | < 6.8.0-100.100
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.15.0-1088.95 | < 6.8.0-1046.49
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian2 products
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ f931551bafe1f10ded7f5282e2aa162c267a2e5d, < 5e280cce3a29b7fe7b828c6ccd5aa5ba87ceb6b6 | ≥ f931551bafe1f10ded7f5282e2aa162c267a2e5d, < 3c2fde33e3e505dfd1a895d1f24bad650c655e14 | ≥ f931551bafe1f10ded7f5282e2aa162c267a2e5d, < 5fe708c5e3c8b2152c6caaa67243e431a5d6cca3 | ≥ f931551bafe1f10ded7f5282e2aa162c267a2e5d, < 545defa656568c74590317cd30068f85134a8216 | ≥ f931551bafe1f10ded7f5282e2aa162c267a2e5d, < 5d53e88d8370b9ab14dd830abb410d9a2671edb6 | ≥ f931551bafe1f10ded7f5282e2aa162c267a2e5d, < 47ab2caba495c1d6a899d284e541a8df656dcfe9 | ≥ f931551bafe1f10ded7f5282e2aa162c267a2e5d, < 24faa6ea274a2b96d0a78a0996c3137c2b2a65f0 | ≥ f931551bafe1f10ded7f5282e2aa162c267a2e5d, < bdb43af4fdb39f844ede401bdb1258f67a580a27 | 2.6.35
  • linux_kernel< 5.4.293 | ≥ 5.5, < 5.10.237 | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.181 | ≥ 5.16, < 6.1.136 | ≥ 6.2, < 6.6.89 | ≥ 6.7, < 6.12.26 | ≥ 6.13, < 6.14.5

3 vendors · 145 products

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