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Linux Linux — f2fs: fix to avoid out-of-boundary access in dnode page
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
L L L N U H N H 7.1 .0017 6.4 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
Linux 98e4da8ca301e062d79ae168c67e56f3c3de3ce4 – —
Linux 3.8 – 5.4.297
TIMELINE
Apr 16 Reserved by Linux
Aug 30 Published (CNA: Linux)
Jul 30 RESCORED — CVE-2025-38677 (Linux). CVSS 7.8 → 7.1 (NVD).
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: fix to avoid out-of-boundary access in dnode page
As Jiaming Zhang reported:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x1c1/0x2a0 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
print_report+0x17e/0x800 mm/kasan/report.c:480
kasan_report+0x147/0x180 mm/kasan/report.c:593
data_blkaddr fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:3053 [inline]
f2fs_data_blkaddr fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:3058 [inline]
f2fs_get_dnode_of_data+0x1a09/0x1c40 fs/f2fs/node.c:855
f2fs_reserve_block+0x53/0x310 fs/f2fs/data.c:1195
prepare_write_begin fs/f2fs/data.c:3395 [inline]
f2fs_write_begin+0xf39/0x2190 fs/f2fs/data.c:3594
generic_perform_write+0x2c7/0x910 mm/filemap.c:4112
f2fs_buffered_write_iter fs/f2fs/file.c:4988 [inline]
f2fs_file_write_iter+0x1ec8/0x2410 fs/f2fs/file.c:5216
new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:593 [inline]
vfs_write+0x546/0xa90 fs/read_write.c:686
ksys_write+0x149/0x250 fs/read_write.c:738
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x3d0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
The root cause is in the corrupted image, there is a dnode has the same
node id w/ its inode, so during f2fs_get_dnode_of_data(), it tries to
access block address in dnode at offset 934, however it parses the dnode
as inode node, so that get_dnode_addr() returns 360, then it tries to
access page address from 360 + 934 * 4 = 4096 w/ 4 bytes.
To fix this issue, let's add sanity check for node id of all direct nodes
during f2fs_get_dnode_of_data().
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
| April 16, 2025 | Reserved | Reserved by Linux |
| August 30, 2025 | Published | Published (CNA: Linux) |
| July 30, 2026 | RESCORED | RESCORED — CVE-2025-38677 (Linux). CVSS 7.8 → 7.1 (NVD). |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 2 rows
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
| Linux | Linux | — | 98e4da8ca301e062d79ae168c67e56f3c3de3ce4 | — |
| Linux | Linux | — | 3.8 | 5.4.297 |
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