Import Source
https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-75129.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/AZL-75129
Upstream
Published
2026-01-23T16:15:53Z
Modified
2026-04-01T05:22:49.057942Z
Summary
CVE-2025-71161 affecting package kernel 6.6.126.1-1
Details

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

dm-verity: disable recursive forward error correction

There are two problems with the recursive correction:

  1. It may cause denial-of-service. In fecreadbufs, there is a loop that has 253 iterations. For each iteration, we may call verityhashfor_block recursively. There is a limit of 4 nested recursions - that means that there may be at most 253^4 (4 billion) iterations. Red Hat QE team actually created an image that pushes dm-verity to this limit - and this image just makes the udev-worker process get stuck in the 'D' state.

  2. It doesn't work. In fecreadbufs we store data into the variable "fio->bufs", but fio bufs is shared between recursive invocations, if "verityhashfor_block" invoked correction recursively, it would overwrite partially filled fio->bufs.

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-75129.json"