PT-2026-25885 · Linux · Linux

Published 2026-03-17 · Updated 2026-03-17 · CVE-2025-71239

Mitre

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

audit: add fchmodat2() to change attributes class

fchmodat2(), introduced in version 6.6 is currently not in the change attribute class of audit. Calling fchmodat2() to change a file attribute in the same fashion than chmod() or fchmodat() will bypass audit rules such as:

-w /tmp/test -p rwa -k test rwa

The current patch adds fchmodat2() to the change attributes class.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-71239

Affected Products

Linux

References · 10

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-71239 · Security Note
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c4334c0d0e7d6f02ed93756fd4ba807e3d00c05f · Note
• https://bencteux.fr/posts/missing_syscalls_audit · Note
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/57489a89657cc94bf6ad8427d1902daba9156aa1 · Note
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ee75b13ea5f05ff9adc784b2464825bd70eb119 · Note
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e762a03713e8c25ca0108c075d662c897fc0623 · Note
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4fed776ca86378da7dd743a7b648e20b025ba8ef · Note
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f714315d7d68898d03093f67285256a8770f903c · Note
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f493a6079b588cf1f04ce5ed6cdad45ab0d53dc · Note
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/91e27bc79c3bca93c06bf5a471d47df9a35b3741 · Note