{"id":"CVE-2025-37876","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-37876","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T04:33:12.612Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfs: Only create /proc/fs/netfs with CONFIG_PROC_FS When testing a special config: CONFIG_NETFS_SUPPORTS=y CONFIG_PROC_FS=n The system crashes with something like: [ 3.766197]…","description":"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]  <TASK>\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]  </TASK>\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.","published":"2025-05-09T07:16:09.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-15T22:18:20.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-476"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00264,"percentile":0.18188,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.26%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ef6eea2efce01d1956ace483216f6b6e26330c9","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/40cb48eba3b4b79e110c1a35d33a48cac54507a2","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c4c5e0b96a90f2a11c378e66edc1f25165e10b6","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-37876","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}