{"id":"CVE-2025-39999","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-39999","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T02:14:50.686Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: blk-mq: fix blk_mq_tags double free while nr_requests grown In the case user trigger tags grow by queue sysfs attribute nr_requests, hctx->sched_tags will be freed directly and replaced…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nblk-mq: fix blk_mq_tags double free while nr_requests grown\n\nIn the case user trigger tags grow by queue sysfs attribute nr_requests,\nhctx->sched_tags will be freed directly and replaced with a new\nallocated tags, see blk_mq_tag_update_depth().\n\nThe problem is that hctx->sched_tags is from elevator->et->tags, while\net->tags is still the freed tags, hence later elevator exit will try to\nfree the tags again, causing kernel panic.\n\nFix this problem by replacing et->tags with new allocated tags as well.\n\nNoted there are still some long term problems that will require some\nrefactor to be fixed thoroughly[1].\n\n[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250815080216.410665-1-yukuai1@huaweicloud.com/","published":"2025-10-15T08:15:38.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-19T21:10:00.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":null,"cwe":[],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00197,"percentile":0.09291,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"unknown","text":"Not yet scored. NVD analysis is pending; check back once CVSS and EPSS values are published."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/392b1d64911f4de8887fe8b68299fa8bd6e5b923","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8faee580d63bc2a54a59dcdb7f9ce4de29384fec","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba28afbd9eff2a6370f23ef4e6a036ab0cfda409","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-39999","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."}