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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-39866" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-09-19T15:26:35.725Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T22:02:32.619Z" 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-2025-39866" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39866.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39866" title: "fs: writeback: fix use-after-free in __mark_inode_dirty()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfs: writeback: fix use-after-free in __mark_inode_dirty()\n\nAn use-after-free issue occurred when __mark_inode_dirty() get the\nbdi_writeback that was in the progress of switching.\n\nCPU: 1 PID: 562 Comm: systemd-random- Not tainted 6.6.56-gb4403bd46a8e #1\n......\npstate: 60400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)\npc : __mark_inode_dirty+0x124/0x418\nlr : __mark_inode_dirty+0x118/0x418\nsp : ffffffc08c9dbbc0\n........\nCall trace:\n __mark_inode_dirty+0x124/0x418\n generic_update_time+0x4c/0x60\n file_modified+0xcc/0xd0\n ext4_buffered_write_iter+0x58/0x124\n ext4_file_write_iter+0x54/0x704\n vfs_write+0x1c0/0x308\n ksys_write+0x74/0x10c\n __arm64_sys_write+0x1c/0x28\n invoke_syscall+0x48/0x114\n el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xc0/0xe0\n do_el0_svc+0x1c/0x28\n el0_svc+0x40/0xe4\n el0t_64_sync_handler+0x120/0x12c\n el0t_64_sync+0x194/0x198\n\nRoot cause is:\n\nsystemd-random-seed kworker\n----------------------------------------------------------------------\n___mark_inode_dirty inode_switch_wbs_work_fn\n\n spin_lock(&inode-\u003ei_lock);\n inode_attach_wb\n locked_inode_to_wb_and_lock_list\n get inode-\u003ei_wb\n spin_unlock(&inode-\u003ei_lock);\n spin_lock(&wb-\u003elist_lock)\n spin_lock(&inode-\u003ei_lock)\n inode_io_list_move_locked\n spin_unlock(&wb-\u003elist_lock)\n spin_unlock(&inode-\u003ei_lock)\n spin_lock(&old_wb-\u003elist_lock)\n inode_do_switch_wbs\n spin_lock(&inode-\u003ei_lock)\n inode-\u003ei_wb = new_wb\n spin_unlock(&inode-\u003ei_lock)\n spin_unlock(&old_wb-\u003elist_lock)\n wb_put_many(old_wb, nr_switched)\n cgwb_release\n old wb released\n wb_wakeup_delayed() accesses wb,\n then trigger the use-after-free\n issue\n\nFix this race condition by holding inode spinlock until\nwb_wakeup_delayed() finished." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0747259d13febfcc838980a63c414c9b920cea6f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e2a14bbae5d8bacaa301362744a110e2be40a3a3"},{"version":"0747259d13febfcc838980a63c414c9b920cea6f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b187c976111960e6e54a6b1fff724f6e3d39406c"},{"version":"0747259d13febfcc838980a63c414c9b920cea6f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1edc2feb9c759a9883dfe81cb5ed231412d8b2e4"},{"version":"0747259d13febfcc838980a63c414c9b920cea6f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bf89b1f87c72df79cf76203f71fbf8349cd5c9de"},{"version":"0747259d13febfcc838980a63c414c9b920cea6f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e63052921f1b25a836feb1500b841bff7a4a0456"},{"version":"0747259d13febfcc838980a63c414c9b920cea6f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c8c14adf80bd1a6e4a1d7ee9c2a816881c26d17a"},{"version":"0747259d13febfcc838980a63c414c9b920cea6f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d02d2c98d25793902f65803ab853b592c7a96b29"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.2"},{"version":"5.10.247","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.192","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.151","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.105","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.46","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.16.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.16.*"},{"version":"6.17","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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