{"id":"CVE-2025-71271","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-71271","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T07:24:56.813Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hfsplus: ensure sb->s_fs_info is always cleaned up When hfsplus was converted to the new mount api a bug was introduced by changing the allocation pattern of sb->s_fs_info.","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nhfsplus: ensure sb->s_fs_info is always cleaned up\n\nWhen hfsplus was converted to the new mount api a bug was introduced by\nchanging the allocation pattern of sb->s_fs_info. If setup_bdev_super()\nfails after a new superblock has been allocated by sget_fc(), but before\nhfsplus_fill_super() takes ownership of the filesystem-specific s_fs_info\ndata it was leaked.\n\nFix this by freeing sb->s_fs_info in hfsplus_kill_super().","published":"2026-05-06T12:16:27.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-14T13:10:00.000Z","status":"Analyzed","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":[],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00126,"percentile":0.02272,"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 (0.13%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0bcfebb83b5460d5be4e5c9dfb19cdaf3d4cb1db","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/126fb0ce99431126b44a6c360192668c818f641f","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e38d32bb04d85a2c81204a85a34878a497128c8","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-71271","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."}