CVE-2025-71161

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 fecreadbufs, there is a loop that has 253 iterations. For each iteration, we may ca...

CVE-2025-71161

The connected advisory describes CVE-2025-71161 affecting Linux kernel dm-verity. It centers on the verity_fec_decode() path in drivers/md/dm-verity-fec.c, where recursive forward error correction can be triggered. Root cause: the recursive correction logic may loop deeply (253 iterations per lev...