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Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2025-39842: Important priority package update for kernel

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 19, 2025
Added
Sep 30, 2025
Modified
Sep 30, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ocfs2: prevent release journal inode after journal shutdown
Before calling ocfs2_delete_osb(), ocfs2_journal_shutdown() has already
been executed in ocfs2_dismount_volume(), so osb->journal must be NULL.
Therefore, the following calltrace will inevitably fail when it reaches
jbd2_journal_release_jbd_inode().
ocfs2_dismount_volume()->
ocfs2_delete_osb()->
ocfs2_free_slot_info()->
__ocfs2_free_slot_info()->
evict()->
ocfs2_evict_inode()->
ocfs2_clear_inode()->
jbd2_journal_release_jbd_inode(osb->journal->j_journal,
Adding osb->journal checks will prevent null-ptr-deref during the above
execution path.

Solutions

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