CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-38659
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-08-22
- Last modified
- 2026-10-15
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
gfs2: No more self recovery
When a node withdraws and it turns out that it is the only node that has
the filesystem mounted, gfs2 currently tries to replay the local journal
to bring the filesystem back into a consistent state. Not only is that
a very bad idea, it has also never worked because gfs2_recover_func()
will refuse to do anything during a withdraw.
However, before even getting to this point, gfs2_recover_func()
dereferences sdp->sd_jdesc->jd_inode. This was a use-after-free before
commit 04133b607a78 ("gfs2: Prevent double iput for journal on error")
and is a NULL pointer dereference since then.
Simply get rid of self recovery to fix that.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.7 < 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)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1a91ba12abef628b43cada87478328274d988e88 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6784367b2f3cd7b89103de35764f37f152590dbd Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/69cf5699a402ee7ae1be53954dc2ae652c0a053c git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ebe17b359bead383581f729e43f591c1c36e159 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97c94c7dbddc34d353c83b541b3decabf98d04af Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/deb016c1669002e48c431d6fd32ea1c20ef41756 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5426ffbec971a8f7346a57392d3a901bdee5a9b Patch