Answer in brief
CVE-2025-21879 records a High severity (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability in btrfs: fix use-after-free on inode when scanning root during em shrinking. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
HOL Guard separates source facts from reviewed analysis. See the methodology.
CVSS is 7.8. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
Factual feed record only; HOL analysis is not approved for indexing. Read the methodology.
The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | >=fef55c4d9c9c22264d2b2ceae1e26922cb6129a5 <07836bc18f4ae42da4e922244f4685561c18755e || >=1020443840569535f6025a855958f07ea3eebf71 <5e79d26014f9386387575b9ed60d342057cee49b || >=1020443840569535f6025a855958f07ea3eebf71 <59f37036bb7ab3d554c24abc856aabca01126414 | 07836bc18f4ae42da4e922244f4685561c18755e, 5e79d26014f9386387575b9ed60d342057cee49b, 59f37036bb7ab3d554c24abc856aabca01126414 |
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | 6.13 | Not reported |
Published upstream
Mar 27, 2025
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Aug 5, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Aug 5, 2026
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix use-after-free on inode when scanning root during em shrinking At btrfs_scan_root() we are accessing the inode's root (and fs_info) in a call to btrfs_fs_closing() after we have scheduled the inode for a delayed iput, and that can result in a use-after-free on the inode in case the cleaner kthread does the iput before we dereference the inode in the call to btrfs_fs_closing(). Fix this by using the fs_info stored already in a local variable instead of doing inode->root->fs_info.
Quoted source text, attributed separately from HOL analysis.