CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-39734

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.15%

4th percentile - higher than 4% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel NTFS3 filesystem, conditional lock acquisition (inode_trylock) was reintroduced instead of inode_lock, resolving a deadlock reported by syzbot. The earlier change removing conditional acquisition was reverted because the xfstest bug no longer occurs on kernel 6.16-rc1.

Risk Assessment

May lead to a deadlock in the NTFS3 filesystem, causing processes or the entire system to hang.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Revert "fs/ntfs3: Replace inode_trylock with inode_lock" This reverts commit 69505fe98f198ee813898cbcaf6770949636430b. Initially, conditional lock acquisition was removed to fix an xfstest bug that was observed during internal testing. The deadlock reported by syzbot is resolved by reintroducing conditional acquisition. The xfstest bug no longer occurs on kernel version 6.16-rc1 during internal testing. I assume that changes in other modules may have contributed to this.

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