CVE-2025-38677CWE-125

CVE-2025-38677

High · published August 30, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
6.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

f2fs: fix to avoid out-of-boundary access in dnode page

As Jiaming Zhang reported:

<TASK>

__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]

dump_stack_lvl+0x1c1/0x2a0 lib/dump_stack.c:120

print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]

print_report+0x17e/0x800 mm/kasan/report.c:480

kasan_report+0x147/0x180 mm/kasan/report.c:593

data_blkaddr fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:3053 [inline]

f2fs_data_blkaddr fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:3058 [inline]

f2fs_get_dnode_of_data+0x1a09/0x1c40 fs/f2fs/node.c:855

f2fs_reserve_block+0x53/0x310 fs/f2fs/data.c:1195

prepare_write_begin fs/f2fs/data.c:3395 [inline]

f2fs_write_begin+0xf39/0x2190 fs/f2fs/data.c:3594

generic_perform_write+0x2c7/0x910 mm/filemap.c:4112

f2fs_buffered_write_iter fs/f2fs/file.c:4988 [inline]

f2fs_file_write_iter+0x1ec8/0x2410 fs/f2fs/file.c:5216

new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:593 [inline]

vfs_write+0x546/0xa90 fs/read_write.c:686

ksys_write+0x149/0x250 fs/read_write.c:738

do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]

do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x3d0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The root cause is in the corrupted image, there is a dnode has the same

node id w/ its inode, so during f2fs_get_dnode_of_data(), it tries to

access block address in dnode at offset 934, however it parses the dnode

as inode node, so that get_dnode_addr() returns 360, then it tries to

access page address from 360 + 934 * 4 = 4096 w/ 4 bytes.

To fix this issue, let's add sanity check for node id of all direct nodes

during f2fs_get_dnode_of_data().

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00172 · 6.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read
Published
2025-08-30T14:15Z
Affected products (8)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 3.8, < 5.4.2975.4.297
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.5, < 5.10.2415.10.241
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.11, < 5.15.1905.15.190
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.16, < 6.1.1496.1.149
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.6.1036.6.103
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.12.446.12.44
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.13, < 6.16.46.16.4
debian/debian_linuxall versions—
References (11)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 30 AUG 09:19Z
    f2fs: fix to avoid out-of-boundary access in dnode page
    cvelistv5