CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-38579

7.8 HIGH Published 2025-08-19 Modified 2026-07-30 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2025-08-19
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])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-908

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix KMSAN uninit-value in extent_info usage KMSAN reported a use of uninitialized value in `__is_extent_mergeable()` and `__is_back_mergeable()` via the read extent tree path. The root cause is that `get_read_extent_info()` only initializes three fields (`fofs`, `blk`, `len`) of `struct extent_info`, leaving the remaining fields uninitialized. This leads to undefined behavior when those fields are accessed later, especially during extent merging. Fix it by zero-initializing the `extent_info` struct before population.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 5.15 < 5.15.190) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.148) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.102) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.42) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.15.10) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.16 < 6.16.1) • debian debian linux 11.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource weakness

References