{"id":"CVE-2025-38163","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-38163","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T02:24:55.952Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix to do sanity check on sbi->total_valid_block_count syzbot reported a f2fs bug as below: ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:2521!","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nf2fs: fix to do sanity check on sbi->total_valid_block_count\n\nsyzbot reported a f2fs bug as below:\n\n------------[ cut here ]------------\nkernel BUG at fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:2521!\nRIP: 0010:dec_valid_block_count+0x3b2/0x3c0 fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:2521\nCall Trace:\n f2fs_truncate_data_blocks_range+0xc8c/0x11a0 fs/f2fs/file.c:695\n truncate_dnode+0x417/0x740 fs/f2fs/node.c:973\n truncate_nodes+0x3ec/0xf50 fs/f2fs/node.c:1014\n f2fs_truncate_inode_blocks+0x8e3/0x1370 fs/f2fs/node.c:1197\n f2fs_do_truncate_blocks+0x840/0x12b0 fs/f2fs/file.c:810\n f2fs_truncate_blocks+0x10d/0x300 fs/f2fs/file.c:838\n f2fs_truncate+0x417/0x720 fs/f2fs/file.c:888\n f2fs_setattr+0xc4f/0x12f0 fs/f2fs/file.c:1112\n notify_change+0xbca/0xe90 fs/attr.c:552\n do_truncate+0x222/0x310 fs/open.c:65\n handle_truncate fs/namei.c:3466 [inline]\n do_open fs/namei.c:3849 [inline]\n path_openat+0x2e4f/0x35d0 fs/namei.c:4004\n do_filp_open+0x284/0x4e0 fs/namei.c:4031\n do_sys_openat2+0x12b/0x1d0 fs/open.c:1429\n do_sys_open fs/open.c:1444 [inline]\n __do_sys_creat fs/open.c:1522 [inline]\n __se_sys_creat fs/open.c:1516 [inline]\n __x64_sys_creat+0x124/0x170 fs/open.c:1516\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94\n\nThe reason is: in fuzzed image, sbi->total_valid_block_count is\ninconsistent w/ mapped blocks indexed by inode, so, we should\nnot trigger panic for such case, instead, let's print log and\nset fsck flag.","published":"2025-07-03T09:15:32.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T09:16:18.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-476"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel","debian/debian linux"],"epss":{"score":0.00183,"percentile":0.078,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.18%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/05872a167c2cab80ef186ef23cc34a6776a1a30c","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25f3776b58c1c45ad2e50ab4b263505b4d2378ca","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49bc7bf38e42cfa642787e947f5721696ea73ac3","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65b3f76592aed5a43c4d79375ac097acf975972b","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a324d77f7ea1a91d55c4b6ad970e3ac9ab6a20d","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a39cc43efc1bca74ed9d6cf9e60b995071f7d178","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ccc28c0397f75a3ec9539cceed9db014d7b73869","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1b743c1955151bd392539b739a3ad155296be13","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38163","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}