CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-38627
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-08-22
- 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-416
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: compress: fix UAF of f2fs_inode_info in f2fs_free_dic
The decompress_io_ctx may be released asynchronously after
I/O completion. If this file is deleted immediately after read,
and the kworker of processing post_read_wq has not been executed yet
due to high workloads, It is possible that the inode(f2fs_inode_info)
is evicted and freed before it is used f2fs_free_dic.
The UAF case as below:
Thread A Thread B
- f2fs_decompress_end_io
- f2fs_put_dic
- queue_work
add free_dic work to post_read_wq
- do_unlink
- iput
- evict
- call_rcu
This file is deleted after read.
Thread C kworker to process post_read_wq
- rcu_do_batch
- f2fs_free_inode
- kmem_cache_free
inode is freed by rcu
- process_scheduled_works
- f2fs_late_free_dic
- f2fs_free_dic
- f2fs_release_decomp_mem
read (dic->inode)->i_compress_algorithm
This patch store compress_algorithm and sbi in dic to avoid inode UAF.
In addition, the previous solution is deprecated in [1] may cause system hang.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.0 < 6.16.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39868685c2a94a70762bc6d77dc81d781d05bff5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d604d40cd3232b09cb339941ef958e49283ed0a git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/74cbeeca4f16823ba58c882e1d8b836c0e39c93d git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8fae5b6addd5f6895e03797b56e3c7b9f9cd15c9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cc81768212cdc509e5a986274db7bc24d18cde19 git.kernel.org