{"id":"CVE-2025-38218","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-38218","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T11:39:04.093Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix to do sanity check on sit_bitmap_size w/ below testcase, resize will generate a corrupted image which contains inconsistent metadata, so when mounting such image, it will…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nf2fs: fix to do sanity check on sit_bitmap_size\n\nw/ below testcase, resize will generate a corrupted image which\ncontains inconsistent metadata, so when mounting such image, it\nwill trigger kernel panic:\n\ntouch img\ntruncate -s $((512*1024*1024*1024)) img\nmkfs.f2fs -f img $((256*1024*1024))\nresize.f2fs -s -i img -t $((1024*1024*1024))\nmount img /mnt/f2fs\n\n------------[ cut here ]------------\nkernel BUG at fs/f2fs/segment.h:863!\nOops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI\nCPU: 11 UID: 0 PID: 3922 Comm: mount Not tainted 6.15.0-rc1+ #191 PREEMPT(voluntary)\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:f2fs_ra_meta_pages+0x47c/0x490\n\nCall Trace:\n f2fs_build_segment_manager+0x11c3/0x2600\n f2fs_fill_super+0xe97/0x2840\n mount_bdev+0xf4/0x140\n legacy_get_tree+0x2b/0x50\n vfs_get_tree+0x29/0xd0\n path_mount+0x487/0xaf0\n __x64_sys_mount+0x116/0x150\n do_syscall_64+0x82/0x190\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\nRIP: 0033:0x7fdbfde1bcfe\n\nThe reaseon is:\n\nsit_i->bitmap_size is 192, so size of sit bitmap is 192*8=1536, at maximum\nthere are 1536 sit blocks, however MAIN_SEGS is 261893, so that sit_blk_cnt\nis 4762, build_sit_entries() -> current_sit_addr() tries to access\nout-of-boundary in sit_bitmap at offset from [1536, 4762), once sit_bitmap\nand sit_bitmap_mirror is not the same, it will trigger f2fs_bug_on().\n\nLet's add sanity check in f2fs_sanity_check_ckpt() to avoid panic.","published":"2025-07-04T14:15:30.000Z","lastModified":"2026-07-30T06:23:01.000Z","status":"Modified","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":[],"affected":["linux/linux kernel","debian/debian linux"],"epss":{"score":0.00187,"percentile":0.08233,"date":"2026-10-27","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 (0.19%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/38ef48a8afef8df646b6f6ae7abb872f18b533c1","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e5ac62a56a24f4d88ce8ffd7bc452428b235868","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5db0d252c64e91ba1929c70112352e85dc5751e7","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79ef8a6c4ec53d327580fd7d2b522cf4f1d05b0c","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/82f51bff393e4c12cf4de553120ca831cfa4ef19","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad862f71016ba38039df1c96ed55c0a4314cc183","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee1b421c469876544e297ec1090574bd76100247","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38218","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."}