Answer in brief
CVE-2025-22072 records a High severity (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability in spufs: fix gang directory lifetimes. 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
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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
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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 | >=877907d37da9694a34adc9dc3e2ce09400148cb5 <880e7b3da2e765c1f90c94c0539be039e96c7062 || >=877907d37da9694a34adc9dc3e2ce09400148cb5 <324f280806aab28ef757aecc18df419676c10ef8 || >=877907d37da9694a34adc9dc3e2ce09400148cb5 <029d8c711f5e5fe8cf63e8a4a1a140a06e224e45 || >=877907d37da9694a34adc9dc3e2ce09400148cb5 <903733782f3ae28a2f7fe4dfb47c7fe3e079a528 || >=877907d37da9694a34adc9dc3e2ce09400148cb5 <fc646a6c6d14b5d581f162a7e32999f789e3a3ac || >=877907d37da9694a34adc9dc3e2ce09400148cb5 <c134deabf4784e155d360744d4a6a835b9de4dd4 | 880e7b3da2e765c1f90c94c0539be039e96c7062, 324f280806aab28ef757aecc18df419676c10ef8, 029d8c711f5e5fe8cf63e8a4a1a140a06e224e45, 903733782f3ae28a2f7fe4dfb47c7fe3e079a528, fc646a6c6d14b5d581f162a7e32999f789e3a3ac, c134deabf4784e155d360744d4a6a835b9de4dd4 |
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | 2.6.22 | Not reported |
Published upstream
Apr 16, 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: spufs: fix gang directory lifetimes prior to "[POWERPC] spufs: Fix gang destroy leaks" we used to have a problem with gang lifetimes - creation of a gang returns opened gang directory, which normally gets removed when that gets closed, but if somebody has created a context belonging to that gang and kept it alive until the gang got closed, removal failed and we ended up with a leak. Unfortunately, it had been fixed the wrong way. Dentry of gang directory was no longer pinned, and rmdir on close was gone. One problem was that failure of open kept calling simple_rmdir() as cleanup, which meant an unbalanced dput(). Another bug was in the success case - gang creation incremented link count on root directory, but that was no longer undone when gang got destroyed. Fix consists of * reverting the commit in question * adding a counter to gang, protected by ->i_rwsem of gang directory inode. * having it set to 1 at creation time, dropped in both spufs_dir_close() and spufs_gang_close() and bumped in spufs_create_context(), provided that it's not 0. * using simple_recursive_removal() to take the gang directory out when counter reaches zero.
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