CVE-2025-71161
Medium · 5.5CVSS
5.5
EPSS
0.4%
Published
Jan 23, 2026
CISA due date
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The record
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.
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Introduced | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Kernel | 4.5.0 | 6.18.6 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | dtb-aarch64 | 0 | 6.12.0-160000.27.1 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | kernel-64kb | 0 | 6.12.0-160000.27.1 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | kernel-azure | 0 | 6.12.0-160000.27.1 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | kernel-default | 0 | 6.12.0-160000.27.1 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | kernel-default-base | 0 | 6.12.0-160000.27.1.160000.2.8 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | kernel-docs | 0 | 6.12.0-160000.27.1 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | kernel-kvmsmall | 0 | 6.12.0-160000.27.1 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | kernel-obs-build | 0 | 6.12.0-160000.27.1 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | kernel-obs-qa | 0 | 6.12.0-160000.27.1 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | kernel-rt | 0 | 6.12.0-160000.27.1 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | kernel-source | 0 | 6.12.0-160000.27.1 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | kernel-syms | 0 | 6.12.0-160000.27.1 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | kernel-zfcpdump | 0 | 6.12.0-160000.27.1 |
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