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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) 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" snapshot: {"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"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21737" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21737.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21737" 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 [\u003cffffffffaa68fb49\u003e] __kmalloc_noprof+0x359/0x510\n [\u003cffffffffc32bf1df\u003e] ceph_mds_check_access+0x5bf/0x14e0 [ceph]\n [\u003cffffffffc3235722\u003e] ceph_open+0x312/0xd80 [ceph]\n [\u003cffffffffaa7dd786\u003e] do_dentry_open+0x456/0x1120\n [\u003cffffffffaa7e3729\u003e] vfs_open+0x79/0x360\n [\u003cffffffffaa832875\u003e] path_openat+0x1de5/0x4390\n [\u003cffffffffaa834fcc\u003e] do_filp_open+0x19c/0x3c0\n [\u003cffffffffaa7e44a1\u003e] do_sys_openat2+0x141/0x180\n [\u003cffffffffaa7e4945\u003e] __x64_sys_open+0xe5/0x1a0\n [\u003cffffffffac2cc2f7\u003e] do_syscall_64+0xb7/0x210\n [\u003cffffffffac400130\u003e] 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=\u003chidden\u003e,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 ]" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"596afb0b8933ba6ed7227adcc538db26feb25c74","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"146109fe936ac07f8f60cd6267543688985b96bc"},{"version":"596afb0b8933ba6ed7227adcc538db26feb25c74","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2b6086c5efe5c7bd6e0eb440d96c26ca0d20d9d7"},{"version":"596afb0b8933ba6ed7227adcc538db26feb25c74","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3b7d93db450e9d8ead80d75e2a303248f1528c35"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.10"},{"version":"6.12.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.13.*"},{"version":"6.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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