Local kernel crash via retained inode pages
Published Sep 11, 2025 · Updated May 12, 2026
Improper input validation in Linux JFS allows local users to crash affected Linux and SIMATIC CN 4100 systems via a crafted inode. The JFS eviction path skips final page truncation when a disk-supplied inode has zero hard links, leaving cached pages that trigger a BUG_ON in clear_inode(). Exploitation requires low-privileged local access and a crafted JFS filesystem state; the documented consequence is a kernel crash.
Summary
What happened
Improper input validation in Linux JFS allows local users to crash affected Linux and SIMATIC CN 4100 systems via a crafted inode. The JFS eviction path skips final page truncation when a disk-supplied inode has zero hard links, leaving cached pages that trigger a BUG_ON in clear_inode(). Exploitation requires low-privileged local access and a crafted JFS filesystem state; the documented consequence is a kernel crash.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-39743
- Published
- Sep 11, 2025
- Updated
- May 12, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- CWE-20, T1499
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Sep 11, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 12, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=2.6.14
- Affected versionversion=32983696a48a6c41d99f3eca82ba7510a552d843 <1bb5cdc3e39f0c2b311fcb631258b7e60d3fb0d3
- Affected versionversion=32983696a48a6c41d99f3eca82ba7510a552d843 <2b1d5ca395a5fb170c3f885cd42c16179f7f54ec
- Affected versionversion=32983696a48a6c41d99f3eca82ba7510a552d843 <2d91b3765cd05016335cd5df5e5c6a29708ec058
- Affected versionversion=32983696a48a6c41d99f3eca82ba7510a552d843 <34d8e982bac48bdcca7524644a8825a580edce74
- Affected versionversion=32983696a48a6c41d99f3eca82ba7510a552d843 <5845b926c561b8333cd65169526eec357d7bb449
- Affected versionversion=32983696a48a6c41d99f3eca82ba7510a552d843 <89fff8e3d6710fc32507b8e19eb5afa9fb79b896
- Affected versionversion=32983696a48a6c41d99f3eca82ba7510a552d843 <8ed7275910fb7177012619864e04d3008763f3ea
- Affected versionversion=32983696a48a6c41d99f3eca82ba7510a552d843 <b5b471820c33365a8ccd2d463578bf4e47056c2c
- Affected versionversion=32983696a48a6c41d99f3eca82ba7510a552d843 <df3fd8daf278eca365f221749ae5b728e8382a04
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