CVE-2025-38230

jfs: validate AG parameters in dbMount() to prevent crashes

CVE-2025-38230 is fixed in 9 products on 1 platform, first by DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38230, released July 4, 2025. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

High
CVSS
7.8
high
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0020
9th percentile

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: jfs: validate AG parameters in dbMount() to prevent crashes Validate db_agheight, db_agwidth, and db_agstart in dbMount to catch corrupted metadata early and avoid undefined behavior in dbAllocAG. Limits are derived from L2LPERCTL, LPERCTL/MAXAG, and CTLTREESIZE: - agheight: 0 to L2LPERCTL/2 (0 to 5) ensures shift (L2LPERCTL - 2*agheight) >= 0. - agwidth: 1 to min(LPERCTL/MAXAG, 2^(L2LPERCTL - 2*agheight)) ensures agperlev >= 1. - Ranges: 1-8 (agheight 0-3), 1-4 (agheight 4), 1 (agheight 5). - LPERCTL/MAXAG = 1024/128 = 8 limits leaves per AG; 2^(10 - 2*agheight) prevents division to 0. - agstart: 0 to CTLTREESIZE-1 - agwidth*(MAXAG-1) keeps ti within stree (size 1365). - Ranges: 0-1237 (agwidth 1), 0-348 (agwidth 8). UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in fs/jfs/jfs_dmap.c:1400:9 shift exponent -335544310 is negative CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5822 Comm: syz-executor130 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc5-syzkaller #0 Hardware name: Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2025 Call Trace: <TASK> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:120 ubsan_epilogue lib/ubsan.c:231 [inline] __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x3c8/0x420 lib/ubsan.c:468 dbAllocAG+0x1087/0x10b0 fs/jfs/jfs_dmap.c:1400 dbDiscardAG+0x352/0xa20 fs/jfs/jfs_dmap.c:1613 jfs_ioc_trim+0x45a/0x6b0 fs/jfs/jfs_discard.c:105 jfs_ioctl+0x2cd/0x3e0 fs/jfs/ioctl.c:131 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline] __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:906 [inline] __se_sys_ioctl+0xf5/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:892 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
kernel-uek · ol 8 0:5.4.17-2136.348.3.el7uek ELSA-2025-20663 Oct 11, 2025
kernel-uek-container · ol 8 0:5.4.17-2136.348.3.el7uek ELSA-2025-20663 Oct 11, 2025
kernel-uek-container-debug · ol 8 0:5.4.17-2136.348.3.el7uek ELSA-2025-20663 Oct 11, 2025
kernel-uek-debug · ol 8 0:5.4.17-2136.348.3.el7uek ELSA-2025-20663 Oct 11, 2025
kernel-uek-debug-devel · ol 8 0:5.4.17-2136.348.3.el7uek ELSA-2025-20663 Oct 11, 2025
kernel-uek-devel · ol 8 0:5.4.17-2136.348.3.el7uek ELSA-2025-20663 Oct 11, 2025
kernel-uek-doc · ol 8 0:5.4.17-2136.348.3.el7uek ELSA-2025-20663 Oct 11, 2025
kernel-uek-tools · ol 8 0:5.4.17-2136.348.3.el7uek ELSA-2025-20663 Oct 11, 2025
linux · Debian 12.15 (bookworm) 6.1.147-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38230 Jul 4, 2025
linux · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 6.12.37-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38230 Jul 4, 2025
linux · Debian 14 6.12.37-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38230 Jul 4, 2025

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