CVE-2025-38163

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38163
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38163.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-38163
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-07-03T08:36:04.397Z
Modified
2025-11-28T02:34:04.815933Z
Summary
f2fs: fix to do sanity check on sbi->total_valid_block_count
Details

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

f2fs: fix to do sanity check on sbi->totalvalidblock_count

syzbot reported a f2fs bug as below:

------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:2521! RIP: 0010:decvalidblockcount+0x3b2/0x3c0 fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:2521 Call Trace: f2fstruncatedatablocksrange+0xc8c/0x11a0 fs/f2fs/file.c:695 truncatednode+0x417/0x740 fs/f2fs/node.c:973 truncatenodes+0x3ec/0xf50 fs/f2fs/node.c:1014 f2fstruncateinodeblocks+0x8e3/0x1370 fs/f2fs/node.c:1197 f2fsdotruncateblocks+0x840/0x12b0 fs/f2fs/file.c:810 f2fstruncateblocks+0x10d/0x300 fs/f2fs/file.c:838 f2fstruncate+0x417/0x720 fs/f2fs/file.c:888 f2fssetattr+0xc4f/0x12f0 fs/f2fs/file.c:1112 notifychange+0xbca/0xe90 fs/attr.c:552 dotruncate+0x222/0x310 fs/open.c:65 handletruncate fs/namei.c:3466 [inline] doopen fs/namei.c:3849 [inline] pathopenat+0x2e4f/0x35d0 fs/namei.c:4004 dofilpopen+0x284/0x4e0 fs/namei.c:4031 dosysopenat2+0x12b/0x1d0 fs/open.c:1429 dosysopen fs/open.c:1444 [inline] _dosyscreat fs/open.c:1522 [inline] _sesyscreat fs/open.c:1516 [inline] _x64syscreat+0x124/0x170 fs/open.c:1516 dosyscallx64 arch/x86/entry/syscall64.c:63 [inline] dosyscall64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94

The reason is: in fuzzed image, sbi->totalvalidblock_count is inconsistent w/ mapped blocks indexed by inode, so, we should not trigger panic for such case, instead, let's print log and set fsck flag.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/38xxx/CVE-2025-38163.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
39a53e0ce0df01b3cf4bb898c7ae2fd2189647d5
Fixed
49bc7bf38e42cfa642787e947f5721696ea73ac3
Fixed
f1b743c1955151bd392539b739a3ad155296be13
Fixed
6a324d77f7ea1a91d55c4b6ad970e3ac9ab6a20d
Fixed
25f3776b58c1c45ad2e50ab4b263505b4d2378ca
Fixed
a39cc43efc1bca74ed9d6cf9e60b995071f7d178
Fixed
65b3f76592aed5a43c4d79375ac097acf975972b
Fixed
ccc28c0397f75a3ec9539cceed9db014d7b73869
Fixed
05872a167c2cab80ef186ef23cc34a6776a1a30c

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
3.8.0
Fixed
5.4.295
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.5.0
Fixed
5.10.239
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
5.15.186
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.1.142
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.6.94
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.7.0
Fixed
6.12.34
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.15.3