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.
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV L L L N U N N H 5.5 .0025 16.6 —
AFFECTED Product Versions Fixed Linux a2e459555c5f9da3e619b7e47a63f98574dc75f1 – — Linux 6.6 – 6.12.64
TIMELINE Jan 13 Reserved by Linux Jan 13 Published (CNA: Linux) Jul 30 RESCORED — CVE-2025-71072 (Linux). CVSS 8.2 → 5.5 (NVD).
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: shmem: fix recovery on rename failures maple_tree insertions can fail if we are seriously short on memory; simple_offset_rename() does not recover well if it runs into that. The same goes for simple_offset_rename_exchange(). Moreover, shmem_whiteout() expects that if it succeeds, the caller will progress to d_move(), i.e. that shmem_rename2() won't fail past the successful call of shmem_whiteout(). Not hard to fix, fortunately - mtree_store() can't fail if the index we are trying to store into is already present in the tree as a singleton. For simple_offset_rename_exchange() that's enough - we just need to be careful about the order of operations. For simple_offset_rename() solution is to preinsert the target into the tree for new_dir; the rest can be done without any potentially failing operations. That preinsertion has to be done in shmem_rename2() rather than in simple_offset_rename() itself - otherwise we'd need to deal with the possibility of failure after successful shmem_whiteout().
| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| January 13, 2026 | Reserved | Reserved by Linux |
| January 13, 2026 | Published | Published (CNA: Linux) |
| July 30, 2026 | RESCORED | RESCORED — CVE-2025-71072 (Linux). CVSS 8.2 → 5.5 (NVD). |
Authoritative record: CVE-2025-71072 at cve.org
Vendors: linux
This is a reference page, not a dated page of record. It assembles the complete lifecycle of CVE-2025-71072 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.