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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-71237" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-02-18T14:53:22.436Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:56:59.574Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:44.935Z" 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-2025-71237" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-71237.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-71237" title: "nilfs2: Fix potential block overflow that cause system hang" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnilfs2: Fix potential block overflow that cause system hang\n\nWhen a user executes the FITRIM command, an underflow can occur when\ncalculating nblocks if end_block is too small. Since nblocks is of\ntype sector_t, which is u64, a negative nblocks value will become a\nvery large positive integer. This ultimately leads to the block layer\nfunction __blkdev_issue_discard() taking an excessively long time to\nprocess the bio chain, and the ns_segctor_sem lock remains held for a\nlong period. This prevents other tasks from acquiring the ns_segctor_sem\nlock, resulting in the hang reported by syzbot in [1].\n\nIf the ending block is too small, typically if it is smaller than 4KiB\nrange, depending on the usage of the segment 0, it may be possible to\nattempt a discard request beyond the device size causing the hang.\n\nExiting successfully and assign the discarded size (0 in this case)\nto range-\u003elen.\n\nAlthough the start and len values in the user input range are too small,\na conservative strategy is adopted here to safely ignore them, which is\nequivalent to a no-op; it will not perform any trimming and will not\nthrow an error.\n\n[1]\ntask:segctord state:D stack:28968 pid:6093 tgid:6093 ppid:2 task_flags:0x200040 flags:0x00080000\nCall Trace:\n rwbase_write_lock+0x3dd/0x750 kernel/locking/rwbase_rt.c:272\n nilfs_transaction_lock+0x253/0x4c0 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:357\n nilfs_segctor_thread_construct fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2569 [inline]\n nilfs_segctor_thread+0x6ec/0xe00 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2684\n\n[ryusuke: corrected part of the commit message about the consequences]" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"82e11e857be3ffd2a0a952c9db8aa2379e2b9e44","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6457d3ee41a4c15082ac49c5aa7fb933b4a043f3"},{"version":"82e11e857be3ffd2a0a952c9db8aa2379e2b9e44","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ba18e5f22f26aa4ef78bc3e81f639d1d4f3845e6"},{"version":"82e11e857be3ffd2a0a952c9db8aa2379e2b9e44","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2438982f635e6cc2009be68ba2efb2998727d8d4"},{"version":"82e11e857be3ffd2a0a952c9db8aa2379e2b9e44","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"df1e20796c9f3d541cca47fb72e4369ea135642d"},{"version":"82e11e857be3ffd2a0a952c9db8aa2379e2b9e44","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ea2278657ad0d62596589fbe2caf995e189e65e7"},{"version":"82e11e857be3ffd2a0a952c9db8aa2379e2b9e44","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4aa45f841413cca81882602b4042c53502f34cad"},{"version":"82e11e857be3ffd2a0a952c9db8aa2379e2b9e44","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b8c5ee234bd54f1447c846101fdaef2cf70c2149"},{"version":"82e11e857be3ffd2a0a952c9db8aa2379e2b9e44","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ed527ef0c264e4bed6c7b2a158ddf516b17f5f66"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.15"},{"version":"5.10.251","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.201","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.164","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.125","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.72","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","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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