CVE-2025-38652

f2fs: fix to avoid out-of-boundary access in devs.path

CVE-2025-38652 is fixed in 9 products on 1 platform, first by DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38652, released August 22, 2025. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

High
CVSS
7.1
Moderate
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0018
7th percentile

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix to avoid out-of-boundary access in devs.path - touch /mnt/f2fs/012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123 - truncate -s $((1024*1024*1024)) \ /mnt/f2fs/012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123 - touch /mnt/f2fs/file - truncate -s $((1024*1024*1024)) /mnt/f2fs/file - mkfs.f2fs /mnt/f2fs/012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123 \ -c /mnt/f2fs/file - mount /mnt/f2fs/012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123 \ /mnt/f2fs/loop [16937.192225] F2FS-fs (loop0): Mount Device [ 0]: /mnt/f2fs/012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123\xff\x01, 511, 0 - 3ffff [16937.192268] F2FS-fs (loop0): Failed to find devices If device path length equals to MAX_PATH_LEN, sbi->devs.path[] may not end up w/ null character due to path array is fully filled, So accidently, fields locate after path[] may be treated as part of device path, result in parsing wrong device path. struct f2fs_dev_info { ... char path[MAX_PATH_LEN]; ... }; Let's add one byte space for sbi->devs.path[] to store null character of device path string.

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) 6.1.148-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38652 Aug 22, 2025
linux · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 6.12.43-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38652 Aug 22, 2025
linux · Debian 14 6.16.3-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38652 Aug 22, 2025

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