Import Source
https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-74420.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/AZL-74420
Upstream
Published
2026-01-13T16:16:06Z
Modified
2026-04-01T05:22:22.586673Z
Summary
CVE-2025-71072 affecting package kernel 6.6.126.1-1
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

shmem: fix recovery on rename failures

mapletree insertions can fail if we are seriously short on memory; simpleoffsetrename() does not recover well if it runs into that. The same goes for simpleoffsetrenameexchange().

Moreover, shmemwhiteout() expects that if it succeeds, the caller will progress to dmove(), i.e. that shmemrename2() won't fail past the successful call of shmemwhiteout().

Not hard to fix, fortunately - mtree_store() can't fail if the index we are trying to store into is already present in the tree as a singleton.

For simpleoffsetrename_exchange() that's enough - we just need to be careful about the order of operations.

For simpleoffsetrename() solution is to preinsert the target into the tree for new_dir; the rest can be done without any potentially failing operations.

That preinsertion has to be done in shmemrename2() rather than in simpleoffsetrename() itself - otherwise we'd need to deal with the possibility of failure after successful shmemwhiteout().

References

Affected packages

Azure Linux:3 / kernel

Package

Name
kernel
Purl
pkg:rpm/azure-linux/kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Last affected
6.6.126.1-1

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-74420.json"