CVE-2025-38697high

CVE-2025-38697: high-severity vulnerability in Linux

jfs: upper bound check of tree index in dbAllocAG

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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 93% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: jfs: upper bound check of tree index in dbAllocAG When computing the tree index in dbAllocAG, we never check if we are out of bounds realative to the size of the stree. This could happen in a scenario where the filesystem metadata are corrupted.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Linux · Linux
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References
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-032379.htmlhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1467a75819e41341cd5ebd16faa2af1ca3c8f4fehttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/173cfd741ad7073640bfb7e2344c2a0ee005e769https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2dd05f09cc323018136a7ecdb3d1007be9ede27fhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/30e19a884c0b11f33821aacda7e72e914bec26efhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49ea46d9025aa1914b24ea957636cbe4367a7311https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5bdb9553fb134fd52ec208a8b378120670f6e784https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a4f199203f79ca9cd7355799ccb26800174ff093https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c214006856ff52a8ff17ed8da52d50601d54f9cehttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c8ca21a2836993d7cb816668458e05e598574e55https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.htmlhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html