CVE-2025-38579: high-severity vulnerability in Linux
f2fs: fix KMSAN uninit-value in extent_info usage
Published · Updated
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.8epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 94% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
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References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01b6f5955e0008af6bc3a181310d2744bb349800https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/08e8ab00a6d20d5544c932ee85a297d833895141https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/154467f4ad033473e5c903a03e7b9bca7df9a0fahttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44a79437309e0ee2276ac17aaedc71253af253a8https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cc1615d5aba4f396cf412579928539a2b124c8a0https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dabfa3952c8e6bfe6414dbf32e8b6c5f349dc898https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e68b751ec2b15d866967812c57cfdfc1eba6a269https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html