CVE-2025-38222
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2025-07-04 | |
| Impact: | Moderate | What is this? |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: inline: fix len overflow in ext4_prepare_inline_data
When running the following code on an ext4 filesystem with inline_data
feature enabled, it will lead to the bug below.
fd = open("file1", O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC, 0666);
ftruncate(fd, 30);
pwrite(fd, "a", 1, (1UL << 40) + 5UL);
That happens because write_begin will succeed as when
ext4_generic_write_inline_data calls ext4_prepare_inline_data, pos + len
will be truncated, leading to ext4_prepare_inline_data parameter to be 6
instead of 0x10000000006.
Then, later when write_end is called, we hit:
BUG_ON(pos + len > EXT4_I(inode)->i_inline_size);
at ext4_write_inline_data.
Fix it by using a loff_t type for the len parameter in
ext4_prepare_inline_data instead of an unsigned int.
[ 44.545164] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 44.545530] kernel BUG at fs/ext4/inline.c:240!
[ 44.545834] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
[ 44.546172] CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 343 Comm: test Not tainted 6.15.0-rc2-00003-g9080916f4863 #45 PREEMPT(full) 112853fcebfdb93254270a7959841d2c6aa2c8bb
[ 44.546523] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
[ 44.546523] RIP: 0010:ext4_write_inline_data+0xfe/0x100
[ 44.546523] Code: 3c 0e 48 83 c7 48 48 89 de 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d e9 e4 fa 43 01 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc cc cc cc cc 0f 0b <0f> 0b 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 41 57 41 56 41 55 41 54 53 48 83 ec 20 49
[ 44.546523] RSP: 0018:ffffb342008b79a8 EFLAGS: 00010216
[ 44.546523] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff9329c579c000 RCX: 0000010000000006
[ 44.546523] RDX: 000000000000003c RSI: ffffb342008b79f0 RDI: ffff9329c158e738
[ 44.546523] RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 44.546523] R10: 00007ffffffff000 R11: ffffffff9bd0d910 R12: 0000006210000000
[ 44.546523] R13: fffffc7e4015e700 R14: 0000010000000005 R15: ffff9329c158e738
[ 44.546523] FS: 00007f4299934740(0000) GS:ffff932a60179000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 44.546523] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 44.546523] CR2: 00007f4299a1ec90 CR3: 0000000002886002 CR4: 0000000000770eb0
[ 44.546523] PKRU: 55555554
[ 44.546523] Call Trace:
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See more information about CVE-2025-38222 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD
NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v3 metrics
| Base Score: | 5.5 |
| Vector String: | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| Version: | 3.1 |
| Attack Vector: | Local |
| Attack Complexity: | Low |
| Privileges Required: | Low |
| User Interaction: | None |
| Scope: | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality Impact: | None |
| Integrity Impact: | None |
| Availability Impact: | High |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 10 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2025-20551 | 2025-09-08 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2025-20552 | 2025-09-08 |
| Oracle Linux version 9 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2025-20551 | 2025-09-08 |
| Oracle Linux version 9 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2025-20552 | 2025-09-08 |
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