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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-37876" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-05-09T06:45:40.934Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:52:02.096Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z" 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-2025-37876" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-37876.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-37876" title: "netfs: Only create /proc/fs/netfs with CONFIG_PROC_FS" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfs: Only create /proc/fs/netfs with CONFIG_PROC_FS\n\nWhen testing a special config:\n\nCONFIG_NETFS_SUPPORTS=y\nCONFIG_PROC_FS=n\n\nThe system crashes with something like:\n\n[ 3.766197] ------------[ cut here ]------------\n[ 3.766484] kernel BUG at mm/mempool.c:560!\n[ 3.766789] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI\n[ 3.767123] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G W\n[ 3.767777] Tainted: [W]=WARN\n[ 3.767968] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996),\n[ 3.768523] RIP: 0010:mempool_alloc_slab.cold+0x17/0x19\n[ 3.768847] Code: 50 fe ff 58 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f e9 93 95 13 00\n[ 3.769977] RSP: 0018:ffffc90000013998 EFLAGS: 00010286\n[ 3.770315] RAX: 000000000000002f RBX: ffff888100ba8640 RCX: 0000000000000000\n[ 3.770749] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000003 RDI: 00000000ffffffff\n[ 3.771217] RBP: 0000000000092880 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffc90000013828\n[ 3.771664] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 00000000ffffffea R12: 0000000000092cc0\n[ 3.772117] R13: 0000000000000400 R14: ffff8881004b1620 R15: ffffea0004ef7e40\n[ 3.772554] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881b5f3c000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n[ 3.773061] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n[ 3.773443] CR2: ffffffff830901b4 CR3: 0000000004296001 CR4: 0000000000770ef0\n[ 3.773884] PKRU: 55555554\n[ 3.774058] Call Trace:\n[ 3.774232] \u003cTASK\u003e\n[ 3.774371] mempool_alloc_noprof+0x6a/0x190\n[ 3.774649] ? _printk+0x57/0x80\n[ 3.774862] netfs_alloc_request+0x85/0x2ce\n[ 3.775147] netfs_readahead+0x28/0x170\n[ 3.775395] read_pages+0x6c/0x350\n[ 3.775623] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5\n[ 3.775928] page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x1bd/0x2a0\n[ 3.776247] filemap_get_pages+0x139/0x970\n[ 3.776510] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5\n[ 3.776820] filemap_read+0xf9/0x580\n[ 3.777054] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5\n[ 3.777368] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5\n[ 3.777674] ? find_held_lock+0x32/0x90\n[ 3.777929] ? netfs_start_io_read+0x19/0x70\n[ 3.778221] ? netfs_start_io_read+0x19/0x70\n[ 3.778489] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5\n[ 3.778800] ? lock_acquired+0x1e6/0x450\n[ 3.779054] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5\n[ 3.779379] netfs_buffered_read_iter+0x57/0x80\n[ 3.779670] __kernel_read+0x158/0x2c0\n[ 3.779927] bprm_execve+0x300/0x7a0\n[ 3.780185] kernel_execve+0x10c/0x140\n[ 3.780423] ? __pfx_kernel_init+0x10/0x10\n[ 3.780690] kernel_init+0xd5/0x150\n[ 3.780910] ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x50\n[ 3.781156] ? __pfx_kernel_init+0x10/0x10\n[ 3.781414] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n[ 3.781677] \u003c/TASK\u003e\n[ 3.781823] Modules linked in:\n[ 3.782065] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---\n\nThis is caused by the following error path in netfs_init():\n\n if (!proc_mkdir(\"fs/netfs\", NULL))\n goto error_proc;\n\nFix this by adding ifdef in netfs_main(), so that /proc/fs/netfs is only\ncreated with CONFIG_PROC_FS." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"7eb5b3e3a0a55f2d166ca949ef47ca6e0c704aab","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2ef6eea2efce01d1956ace483216f6b6e26330c9"},{"version":"7eb5b3e3a0a55f2d166ca949ef47ca6e0c704aab","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6c4c5e0b96a90f2a11c378e66edc1f25165e10b6"},{"version":"7eb5b3e3a0a55f2d166ca949ef47ca6e0c704aab","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"40cb48eba3b4b79e110c1a35d33a48cac54507a2"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.8"},{"version":"6.12.26","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.14.5","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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