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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-22070" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-04-16T14:12:23.295Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:36:13.739Z" 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-2025-22070" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-22070.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-22070" title: "fs/9p: fix NULL pointer dereference on mkdir" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfs/9p: fix NULL pointer dereference on mkdir\n\nWhen a 9p tree was mounted with option 'posixacl', parent directory had a\ndefault ACL set for its subdirectories, e.g.:\n\n setfacl -m default:group:simpsons:rwx parentdir\n\nthen creating a subdirectory crashed 9p client, as v9fs_fid_add() call in\nfunction v9fs_vfs_mkdir_dotl() sets the passed 'fid' pointer to NULL\n(since dafbe689736) even though the subsequent v9fs_set_create_acl() call\nexpects a valid non-NULL 'fid' pointer:\n\n [ 37.273191] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000\n ...\n [ 37.322338] Call Trace:\n [ 37.323043] \u003cTASK\u003e\n [ 37.323621] ? __die (arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:421 arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:434)\n [ 37.324448] ? page_fault_oops (arch/x86/mm/fault.c:714)\n [ 37.325532] ? search_module_extables (kernel/module/main.c:3733)\n [ 37.326742] ? p9_client_walk (net/9p/client.c:1165) 9pnet\n [ 37.328006] ? search_bpf_extables (kernel/bpf/core.c:804)\n [ 37.329142] ? exc_page_fault (./arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:686 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1488 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1538)\n [ 37.330196] ? asm_exc_page_fault (./arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:574)\n [ 37.331330] ? p9_client_walk (net/9p/client.c:1165) 9pnet\n [ 37.332562] ? v9fs_fid_xattr_get (fs/9p/xattr.c:30) 9p\n [ 37.333824] v9fs_fid_xattr_set (fs/9p/fid.h:23 fs/9p/xattr.c:121) 9p\n [ 37.335077] v9fs_set_acl (fs/9p/acl.c:276) 9p\n [ 37.336112] v9fs_set_create_acl (fs/9p/acl.c:307) 9p\n [ 37.337326] v9fs_vfs_mkdir_dotl (fs/9p/vfs_inode_dotl.c:411) 9p\n [ 37.338590] vfs_mkdir (fs/namei.c:4313)\n [ 37.339535] do_mkdirat (fs/namei.c:4336)\n [ 37.340465] __x64_sys_mkdir (fs/namei.c:4354)\n [ 37.341455] do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83)\n [ 37.342447] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130)\n\nFix this by simply swapping the sequence of these two calls in\nv9fs_vfs_mkdir_dotl(), i.e. calling v9fs_set_create_acl() before\nv9fs_fid_add()." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"dafbe689736f62c696ac64809b17bdc752cfbe76","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b17edabd917142d9ecd058f7c6ee9da5e32af1dd"},{"version":"dafbe689736f62c696ac64809b17bdc752cfbe76","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8522051c58d68146b93e8a5ba9987e83b3d64e7b"},{"version":"dafbe689736f62c696ac64809b17bdc752cfbe76","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2139dea5c53e3bb63ac49a6901c85e525a80ee8a"},{"version":"dafbe689736f62c696ac64809b17bdc752cfbe76","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6517b395cb1e43fbf3962dd93e6fb4a5e5ab100e"},{"version":"dafbe689736f62c696ac64809b17bdc752cfbe76","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3f61ac7c65bdb26accb52f9db66313597e759821"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.0"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.23","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.13.*"},{"version":"6.14.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.14.*"},{"version":"6.15","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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