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Linux Linux — hfsplus: fix slab-out-of-bounds in hfsplus_bnode_read()
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 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 – —
Linux 2.6.12 – 5.4.297
TIMELINE
Apr 16 Reserved by Linux
Sep 4 Published (CNA: Linux)
Jul 30 RESCORED — CVE-2025-38714 (Linux). CVSS 7.8 → 7.1 (NVD).
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hfsplus: fix slab-out-of-bounds in hfsplus_bnode_read()
The hfsplus_bnode_read() method can trigger the issue:
[ 174.852007][ T9784] ==================================================================
[ 174.852709][ T9784] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in hfsplus_bnode_read+0x2f4/0x360
[ 174.853412][ T9784] Read of size 8 at addr ffff88810b5fc6c0 by task repro/9784
[ 174.854059][ T9784]
[ 174.854272][ T9784] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 9784 Comm: repro Not tainted 6.16.0-rc3 #7 PREEMPT(full)
[ 174.854281][ T9784] Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
[ 174.854286][ T9784] Call Trace:
[ 174.854289][ T9784] <TASK>
[ 174.854292][ T9784] dump_stack_lvl+0x10e/0x1f0
[ 174.854305][ T9784] print_report+0xd0/0x660
[ 174.854315][ T9784] ? __virt_addr_valid+0x81/0x610
[ 174.854323][ T9784] ? __phys_addr+0xe8/0x180
[ 174.854330][ T9784] ? hfsplus_bnode_read+0x2f4/0x360
[ 174.854337][ T9784] kasan_report+0xc6/0x100
[ 174.854346][ T9784] ? hfsplus_bnode_read+0x2f4/0x360
[ 174.854354][ T9784] hfsplus_bnode_read+0x2f4/0x360
[ 174.854362][ T9784] hfsplus_bnode_dump+0x2ec/0x380
[ 174.854370][ T9784] ? __pfx_hfsplus_bnode_dump+0x10/0x10
[ 174.854377][ T9784] ? hfsplus_bnode_write_u16+0x83/0xb0
[ 174.854385][ T9784] ? srcu_gp_start+0xd0/0x310
[ 174.854393][ T9784] ? __mark_inode_dirty+0x29e/0xe40
[ 174.854402][ T9784] hfsplus_brec_remove+0x3d2/0x4e0
[ 174.854411][ T9784] __hfsplus_delete_attr+0x290/0x3a0
[ 174.854419][ T9784] ? __pfx_hfs_find_1st_rec_by_cnid+0x10/0x10
[ 174.854427][ T9784] ? __pfx___hfsplus_delete_attr+0x10/0x10
[ 174.854436][ T9784] ? __asan_memset+0x23/0x50
[ 174.854450][ T9784] hfsplus_delete_all_attrs+0x262/0x320
[ 174.854459][ T9784] ? __pfx_hfsplus_delete_all_attrs+0x10/0x10
[ 174.854469][ T9784] ? rcu_is_watching+0x12/0xc0
[ 174.854476][ T9784] ? __mark_inode_dirty+0x29e/0xe40
[ 174.854483][ T9784] hfsplus_delete_cat+0x845/0xde0
[ 174.854493][ T9784] ? __pfx_hfsplus_delete_cat+0x10/0x10
[ 174.854507][ T9784] hfsplus_unlink+0x1ca/0x7c0
[ 174.854516][ T9784] ? __pfx_hfsplus_unlink+0x10/0x10
[ 174.854525][ T9784] ? down_write+0x148/0x200
[ 174.854532][ T9784] ? __pfx_down_write+0x10/0x10
[ 174.854540][ T9784] vfs_unlink+0x2fe/0x9b0
[ 174.854549][ T9784] do_unlinkat+0x490/0x670
[ 174.854557][ T9784] ? __pfx_do_unlinkat+0x10/0x10
[ 174.854565][ T9784] ? __might_fault+0xbc/0x130
[ 174.854576][ T9784] ? getname_flags.part.0+0x1c5/0x550
[ 174.854584][ T9784] __x64_sys_unlink+0xc5/0x110
[ 174.854592][ T9784] do_syscall_64+0xc9/0x480
[ 174.854600][ T9784] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
[ 174.854608][ T9784] RIP: 0033:0x7f6fdf4c3167
[ 174.854614][ T9784] Code: f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 26 0d 0e 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 08
[ 174.854622][ T9784] RSP: 002b:00007ffcb948bca8 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000057
[ 174.854630][ T9784] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f6fdf4c3167
[ 174.854636][ T9784] RDX: 00007ffcb948bcc0 RSI: 00007ffcb948bcc0 RDI: 00007ffcb948bd50
[ 174.854641][ T9784] RBP: 00007ffcb948cd90 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 00007ffcb948bb40
[ 174.854645][ T9784] R10: 00007f6fdf564fc0 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 0000561e1bc9c2d0
[ 174.854650][ T9784] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
[ 174.854658][ T9784] </TASK>
[ 174.854661][ T9784]
[ 174.879281][ T9784] Allocated by task 9784:
[ 174.879664][ T9784] kasan_save_stack+0x20/0x40
[ 174.880082][ T9784] kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
[ 174.880500][ T9784] __kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0
[ 174.880908][ T9784] __kmalloc_noprof+0x205/0x550
[ 174.881337][ T9784] __hfs_bnode_create+0x107/0x890
[ 174.881779][ T9784] hfsplus_bnode_find+0x2d0/0xd10
[ 174.882222][ T9784] hfsplus_brec_find+0x2b0/0x520
[ 174.882659][ T9784] hfsplus_delete_all_attrs+0x23b/0x3
---truncated---
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
| April 16, 2025 | Reserved | Reserved by Linux |
| September 4, 2025 | Published | Published (CNA: Linux) |
| July 30, 2026 | RESCORED | RESCORED — CVE-2025-38714 (Linux). CVSS 7.8 → 7.1 (NVD). |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 2 rows
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
| Linux | Linux | — | 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 | — |
| Linux | Linux | — | 2.6.12 | 5.4.297 |
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