rm: --preserve-root bypassed via a symlink to / (string check instead of dev/inode)

The --preserve-root check uses a path-string test path.hasroot && path.parent.isnone rather than comparing device/inode. A symlink to / e.g. /tmp/rootlink - / has a parent component, so it passes the check. GNU caches /'s dev/inode at startup and compares every traversed directory against it...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.12

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: Fixed a lockup issue caused by a race condition between inode eviction and inode caching. There is a race condition between inode eviction and inode caching that can cause a live struct btrfsinode to be missing from the...

EUVD-2025-30851

Malicious code in bioql PyPI...

SUSE CVE-2025-39884

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix subvolume deletion lockup caused by inodes xarray race There is a race condition between inode eviction and inode caching that can cause a live struct btrfsinode to be missing from the root-inodes xarray. Specifically,...

CVE-2025-39884

Mode C: The provided documents describe CVE-2025-39884 as a Linux kernel (btrfs) race where eviction and inode caching can lose a live btrfs_inode in root->inodes, breaking subvolume deletion. The root cause is a window in evict() between unhashed inode removal and xarray deletion, allowing a ...

CVE-2024-53112

CVE-2024-53112 affects the Linux kernel via the OCFS2 group add path. The issue occurs when ioctl(OCFS2_IOC_GROUP_ADD, …) fails for an inode; the corresponding buffer head remains cached and a subsequent ioctl triggers a BUG in ocfs2_set_new_buffer_uptodate() while caching the same buffer head. T...