CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-38218
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-07-04
- Last modified
- 2026-07-30
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: fix to do sanity check on sit_bitmap_size
w/ below testcase, resize will generate a corrupted image which
contains inconsistent metadata, so when mounting such image, it
will trigger kernel panic:
touch img
truncate -s $((512*1024*1024*1024)) img
mkfs.f2fs -f img $((256*1024*1024))
resize.f2fs -s -i img -t $((1024*1024*1024))
mount img /mnt/f2fs
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at fs/f2fs/segment.h:863!
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
CPU: 11 UID: 0 PID: 3922 Comm: mount Not tainted 6.15.0-rc1+ #191 PREEMPT(voluntary)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:f2fs_ra_meta_pages+0x47c/0x490
Call Trace:
f2fs_build_segment_manager+0x11c3/0x2600
f2fs_fill_super+0xe97/0x2840
mount_bdev+0xf4/0x140
legacy_get_tree+0x2b/0x50
vfs_get_tree+0x29/0xd0
path_mount+0x487/0xaf0
__x64_sys_mount+0x116/0x150
do_syscall_64+0x82/0x190
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
RIP: 0033:0x7fdbfde1bcfe
The reaseon is:
sit_i->bitmap_size is 192, so size of sit bitmap is 192*8=1536, at maximum
there are 1536 sit blocks, however MAIN_SEGS is 261893, so that sit_blk_cnt
is 4762, build_sit_entries() -> current_sit_addr() tries to access
out-of-boundary in sit_bitmap at offset from [1536, 4762), once sit_bitmap
and sit_bitmap_mirror is not the same, it will trigger f2fs_bug_on().
Let's add sanity check in f2fs_sanity_check_ckpt() to avoid panic.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.8 < 5.10.239)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.186)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.142)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.95)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.35)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.15.4)
• debian debian linux 11.0
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/38ef48a8afef8df646b6f6ae7abb872f18b533c1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e5ac62a56a24f4d88ce8ffd7bc452428b235868 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5db0d252c64e91ba1929c70112352e85dc5751e7 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79ef8a6c4ec53d327580fd7d2b522cf4f1d05b0c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/82f51bff393e4c12cf4de553120ca831cfa4ef19 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad862f71016ba38039df1c96ed55c0a4314cc183 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee1b421c469876544e297ec1090574bd76100247 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory