CVE-2025-38677

f2fs: fix to avoid out-of-boundary access in dnode page

CVE-2025-38677 is fixed in 9 products on 1 platform, first by DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38677, released August 30, 2025. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

High
CVSS
7.1
high
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 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 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline] print_report+0x17e/0x800 mm/kasan/report.c:480 kasan_report+0x147/0x180 mm/kasan/report.c:593 data_blkaddr fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:3053 [inline] f2fs_data_blkaddr fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:3058 [inline] f2fs_get_dnode_of_data+0x1a09/0x1c40 fs/f2fs/node.c:855 f2fs_reserve_block+0x53/0x310 fs/f2fs/data.c:1195 prepare_write_begin fs/f2fs/data.c:3395 [inline] f2fs_write_begin+0xf39/0x2190 fs/f2fs/data.c:3594 generic_perform_write+0x2c7/0x910 mm/filemap.c:4112 f2fs_buffered_write_iter fs/f2fs/file.c:4988 [inline] f2fs_file_write_iter+0x1ec8/0x2410 fs/f2fs/file.c:5216 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:593 [inline] vfs_write+0x546/0xa90 fs/read_write.c:686 ksys_write+0x149/0x250 fs/read_write.c:738 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x3d0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f The root cause is in the corrupted image, there is a dnode has the same node id w/ its inode, so during f2fs_get_dnode_of_data(), it tries to access block address in dnode at offset 934, however it parses the dnode as inode node, so that get_dnode_addr() returns 360, then it tries to access page address from 360 + 934 * 4 = 4096 w/ 4 bytes. To fix this issue, let's add sanity check for node id of all direct nodes during f2fs_get_dnode_of_data().

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) 6.1.153-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38677 Aug 30, 2025
linux · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 6.12.48-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38677 Aug 30, 2025
linux · Debian 14 6.16.5-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38677 Aug 30, 2025

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