CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-38579
7.8 HIGH
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- 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
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01b6f5955e0008af6bc3a181310d2744bb349800 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/08e8ab00a6d20d5544c932ee85a297d833895141 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/154467f4ad033473e5c903a03e7b9bca7df9a0fa Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44a79437309e0ee2276ac17aaedc71253af253a8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cc1615d5aba4f396cf412579928539a2b124c8a0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dabfa3952c8e6bfe6414dbf32e8b6c5f349dc898 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e68b751ec2b15d866967812c57cfdfc1eba6a269 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory