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AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV L L L N U N N H 5.5 .0034 27.2 —
AFFECTED Product Versions Fixed Linux a739ff3f543afbb4a041c16cd0182c8e8d366e70 – — Linux 4.5 – 5.15.209
TIMELINE Jan 13 Reserved by Linux Jan 23 Published (CNA: Linux) Jul 30 RESCORED — CVE-2025-71161 (Linux). CVSS 7.5 → 5.5 (NVD).
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm-verity: disable recursive forward error correction There are two problems with the recursive correction: 1. It may cause denial-of-service. In fec_read_bufs, there is a loop that has 253 iterations. For each iteration, we may call verity_hash_for_block recursively. There is a limit of 4 nested recursions - that means that there may be at most 253^4 (4 billion) iterations. Red Hat QE team actually created an image that pushes dm-verity to this limit - and this image just makes the udev-worker process get stuck in the 'D' state. 2. It doesn't work. In fec_read_bufs we store data into the variable "fio->bufs", but fio bufs is shared between recursive invocations, if "verity_hash_for_block" invoked correction recursively, it would overwrite partially filled fio->bufs.
| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| January 13, 2026 | Reserved | Reserved by Linux |
| January 23, 2026 | Published | Published (CNA: Linux) |
| July 30, 2026 | RESCORED | RESCORED — CVE-2025-71161 (Linux). CVSS 7.5 → 5.5 (NVD). |
Authoritative record: CVE-2025-71161 at cve.org
Vendors: linux
Weaknesses: CWE-193
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