CVE-2025-38652: high-severity vulnerability in Linux
f2fs: fix to avoid out-of-boundary access in devs.path
Published · Updated
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.3epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 93% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: fix to avoid out-of-boundary access in devs.path
- touch /mnt/f2fs/012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123
- truncate -s $((1024*1024*1024)) \
/mnt/f2fs/012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123
- touch /mnt/f2fs/file
- truncate -s $((1024*1024*1024)) /mnt/f2fs/file
- mkfs.f2fs /mnt/f2fs/012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123 \
-c /mnt/f2fs/file
- mount /mnt/f2fs/012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123 \
/mnt/f2fs/loop
[16937.192225] F2FS-fs (loop0): Mount Device [ 0]: /mnt/f2fs/012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123\xff\x01, 511, 0 - 3ffff
[16937.192268] F2FS-fs (loop0): Failed to find devices
If device path length equals to MAX_PATH_LEN, sbi->devs.path[] may
not end up w/ null character due to path array is fully filled, So
accidently, fields locate after path[] may be treated as part of
device path, result in parsing wrong device path.
struct f2fs_dev_info {
...
char path[MAX_PATH_LEN];
...
};
Let's add one byte space for sbi->devs.path[] to store null
character of device path string.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H
Affected products
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References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b1efa5f0e878745e94a98022e8edc675a87d78ehttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1cf1ff15f262e8baf12201b270b6a79f9d119b2dhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/345fc8d1838f3f8be7c8ed08d86a13dedef67136https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3466721f06edff834f99d9f49f23eabc6b2cb78ehttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5661998536af52848cc4d52a377e90368196edeahttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/666b7cf6ac9aa074b8319a2b68cba7f2c30023f0https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/70849d33130a2cf1d6010069ed200669c8651fbdhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/755427093e4294ac111c3f9e40d53f681a0fbdaahttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc0172c74bd9edaee7bea2ebb35f3dbd37a8ae80https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.htmlhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html