# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-39842"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-19T15:26:17.075Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-12T12:07:30.064Z"
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-2025-39842"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39842.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39842"
title: "ocfs2: prevent release journal inode after journal shutdown"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nocfs2: prevent release journal inode after journal shutdown\n\nBefore calling ocfs2_delete_osb(), ocfs2_journal_shutdown() has already\nbeen executed in ocfs2_dismount_volume(), so osb-\u003ejournal must be NULL. \nTherefore, the following calltrace will inevitably fail when it reaches\njbd2_journal_release_jbd_inode().\n\nocfs2_dismount_volume()-\u003e\n  ocfs2_delete_osb()-\u003e\n    ocfs2_free_slot_info()-\u003e\n      __ocfs2_free_slot_info()-\u003e\n        evict()-\u003e\n          ocfs2_evict_inode()-\u003e\n            ocfs2_clear_inode()-\u003e\n\t      jbd2_journal_release_jbd_inode(osb-\u003ejournal-\u003ej_journal,\n\nAdding osb-\u003ejournal checks will prevent null-ptr-deref during the above\nexecution path."
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