{"id":"CVE-2025-38677","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-38677","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T02:16:00.324Z","title":"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…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nf2fs: fix to avoid out-of-boundary access in dnode page\n\nAs Jiaming Zhang reported:\n\n <TASK>\n __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]\n dump_stack_lvl+0x1c1/0x2a0 lib/dump_stack.c:120\n print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]\n print_report+0x17e/0x800 mm/kasan/report.c:480\n kasan_report+0x147/0x180 mm/kasan/report.c:593\n data_blkaddr fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:3053 [inline]\n f2fs_data_blkaddr fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:3058 [inline]\n f2fs_get_dnode_of_data+0x1a09/0x1c40 fs/f2fs/node.c:855\n f2fs_reserve_block+0x53/0x310 fs/f2fs/data.c:1195\n prepare_write_begin fs/f2fs/data.c:3395 [inline]\n f2fs_write_begin+0xf39/0x2190 fs/f2fs/data.c:3594\n generic_perform_write+0x2c7/0x910 mm/filemap.c:4112\n f2fs_buffered_write_iter fs/f2fs/file.c:4988 [inline]\n f2fs_file_write_iter+0x1ec8/0x2410 fs/f2fs/file.c:5216\n new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:593 [inline]\n vfs_write+0x546/0xa90 fs/read_write.c:686\n ksys_write+0x149/0x250 fs/read_write.c:738\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x3d0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n\nThe root cause is in the corrupted image, there is a dnode has the same\nnode id w/ its inode, so during f2fs_get_dnode_of_data(), it tries to\naccess block address in dnode at offset 934, however it parses the dnode\nas inode node, so that get_dnode_addr() returns 360, then it tries to\naccess page address from 360 + 934 * 4 = 4096 w/ 4 bytes.\n\nTo fix this issue, let's add sanity check for node id of all direct nodes\nduring f2fs_get_dnode_of_data().","published":"2025-08-30T10:15:36.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-19T21:10:00.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.1,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-125"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel","debian/debian linux"],"epss":{"score":0.00172,"percentile":0.06532,"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":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.17%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b7784ea07e6aa044f74b39d6b5af5e28746fc81","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/77de19b6867f2740cdcb6c9c7e50d522b47847a4","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/888aa660144bcb6ec07839da756ee46bfcf7fc53","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/901f62efd6e855f93d8b1175540f29f4dc45ba55","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92ef491b506a0f4dd971a3a76f86f2d8f5370180","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a650654365c57407413e9b1f6ff4d539bf2e99ca","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee4d13f5407cbdf1216cc258f45492075713889a","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1d5093d9fe9f3c74c123741c88666cc853b79c5","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"},{"url":"https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-032379.html","source":"0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38677","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."}