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    "id": "CVE-2025-21737",
    "sourceURL": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21737",
    "idYear": 2025,
    "status": "PUBLISHED",
    "publishedAt": "2025-02-27T02:12:13.434Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-11T21:05:28.186Z",
    "importedAt": "2026-10-24T01:57:29.455Z",
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      "id": "cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline",
      "at": "2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z",
      "source": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"
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    "facts": {
      "title": "ceph: fix memory leak in ceph_mds_auth_match()",
      "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nceph: fix memory leak in ceph_mds_auth_match()\n\nWe now free the temporary target path substring allocation on every\npossible branch, instead of omitting the default branch.  In some\ncases, a memory leak occured, which could rapidly crash the system\n(depending on how many file accesses were attempted).\n\nThis was detected in production because it caused a continuous memory\ngrowth, eventually triggering kernel OOM and completely hard-locking\nthe kernel.\n\nRelevant kmemleak stacktrace:\n\n    unreferenced object 0xffff888131e69900 (size 128):\n      comm \"git\", pid 66104, jiffies 4295435999\n      hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n        76 6f 6c 75 6d 65 73 2f 63 6f 6e 74 61 69 6e 65  volumes/containe\n        72 73 2f 67 69 74 65 61 2f 67 69 74 65 61 2f 67  rs/gitea/gitea/g\n      backtrace (crc 2f3bb450):\n        [<ffffffffaa68fb49>] __kmalloc_noprof+0x359/0x510\n        [<ffffffffc32bf1df>] ceph_mds_check_access+0x5bf/0x14e0 [ceph]\n        [<ffffffffc3235722>] ceph_open+0x312/0xd80 [ceph]\n        [<ffffffffaa7dd786>] do_dentry_open+0x456/0x1120\n        [<ffffffffaa7e3729>] vfs_open+0x79/0x360\n        [<ffffffffaa832875>] path_openat+0x1de5/0x4390\n        [<ffffffffaa834fcc>] do_filp_open+0x19c/0x3c0\n        [<ffffffffaa7e44a1>] do_sys_openat2+0x141/0x180\n        [<ffffffffaa7e4945>] __x64_sys_open+0xe5/0x1a0\n        [<ffffffffac2cc2f7>] do_syscall_64+0xb7/0x210\n        [<ffffffffac400130>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n\nIt can be triggered by mouting a subdirectory of a CephFS filesystem,\nand then trying to access files on this subdirectory with an auth token\nusing a path-scoped capability:\n\n    $ ceph auth get client.services\n    [client.services]\n            key = REDACTED\n            caps mds = \"allow rw fsname=cephfs path=/volumes/\"\n            caps mon = \"allow r fsname=cephfs\"\n            caps osd = \"allow rw tag cephfs data=cephfs\"\n\n    $ cat /proc/self/mounts\n    services@[REDACTED].cephfs=/volumes/containers /ceph/containers ceph rw,noatime,name=services,secret=<hidden>,ms_mode=prefer-crc,mount_timeout=300,acl,mon_addr=[REDACTED]:3300,recover_session=clean 0 0\n\n    $ seq 1 1000000 | xargs -P32 --replace={} touch /ceph/containers/file-{} && \\\n    seq 1 1000000 | xargs -P32 --replace={} cat /ceph/containers/file-{}\n\n[ idryomov: combine if statements, rename rc to path_matched and make\n            it a bool, formatting ]",
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              "version": "596afb0b8933ba6ed7227adcc538db26feb25c74",
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              "version": "6.10",
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              "version": "0",
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              "version": "6.12.14",
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