CVE-2025-21679 - Linux Kernel Btrfs Null Pointer Dereference

CVE-2025-21679 - Linux Kernel Btrfs Null Pointer Dereference

https://cvefeed.io/rssfeed/latest.atom / Fri, 01/31/2025 - 14:54
CVE ID : CVE-2025-21679
Published : Jan. 31, 2025, 12:15 p.m. | 45 minutes ago
Description : In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: add the missing error handling inside get_canonical_dev_path Inside function get_canonical_dev_path(), we call d_path() to get the final device path. But d_path() can return error, and in that case the next strscpy() call will trigger an invalid memory access. Add back the missing error handling for d_path().
Severity: 0.0 | NA
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