Reference page — cumulative record through Wednesday, August 19, 2026 UTC. Reference pages update as the archive grows; only dated daily editions are immutable pages of record.
Linux Linux — zram: fix slot write race condition
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
L H L N U N N H 4.7 .0009 0.6 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
Linux 71268035f5d734ad6373d953298bd5779985497a – —
Linux 6.14 – 6.16.9
TIMELINE
Apr 16 Reserved by Linux
Oct 4 Published (CNA: Linux)
Jul 30 RESCORED — CVE-2025-39941 (Linux). CVSS 7.8 → 4.7 (NVD).
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
zram: fix slot write race condition
Parallel concurrent writes to the same zram index result in leaked
zsmalloc handles. Schematically we can have something like this:
CPU0 CPU1
zram_slot_lock()
zs_free(handle)
zram_slot_lock()
zram_slot_lock()
zs_free(handle)
zram_slot_lock()
compress compress
handle = zs_malloc() handle = zs_malloc()
zram_slot_lock
zram_set_handle(handle)
zram_slot_lock
zram_slot_lock
zram_set_handle(handle)
zram_slot_lock
Either CPU0 or CPU1 zsmalloc handle will leak because zs_free() is done
too early. In fact, we need to reset zram entry right before we set its
new handle, all under the same slot lock scope.
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
| April 16, 2025 | Reserved | Reserved by Linux |
| October 4, 2025 | Published | Published (CNA: Linux) |
| July 30, 2026 | RESCORED | RESCORED — CVE-2025-39941 (Linux). CVSS 7.8 → 4.7 (NVD). |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 2 rows
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
| Linux | Linux | — | 71268035f5d734ad6373d953298bd5779985497a | — |
| Linux | Linux | — | 6.14 | 6.16.9 |
About this page
This is a reference page, not a dated page of record. It assembles the complete lifecycle of CVE-2025-39941 from the CVE Program record, NVD enrichment, the CISA KEV catalog, EPSS, and OSV advisories. The box score's numbers (CVSS, EPSS, KEV status) are current as of Wednesday, August 19, 2026 UTC and are re-derived as the archive grows; only dated daily editions are immutable pages of record. The authoritative source for this identifier is cve.org.