Release Date: | 2025-07-09 | |
Impact: | Moderate | What is this? |
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: handle csum tree error with rescue=ibadroots correctly
[BUG]
There is syzbot based reproducer that can crash the kernel, with the
following call trace: (With some debug output added)
DEBUG: rescue=ibadroots parsed
BTRFS: device fsid 14d642db-7b15-43e4-81e6-4b8fac6a25f8 devid 1 transid 8 /dev/loop0 (7:0) scanned by repro (1010)
BTRFS info (device loop0): first mount of filesystem 14d642db-7b15-43e4-81e6-4b8fac6a25f8
BTRFS info (device loop0): using blake2b (blake2b-256-generic) checksum algorithm
BTRFS info (device loop0): using free-space-tree
BTRFS warning (device loop0): checksum verify failed on logical 5312512 mirror 1 wanted 0xb043382657aede36608fd3386d6b001692ff406164733d94e2d9a180412c6003 found 0x810ceb2bacb7f0f9eb2bf3b2b15c02af867cb35ad450898169f3b1f0bd818651 level 0
DEBUG: read tree root path failed for tree csum, ret=-5
BTRFS warning (device loop0): checksum verify failed on logical 5328896 mirror 1 wanted 0x51be4e8b303da58e6340226815b70e3a93592dac3f30dd510c7517454de8567a found 0x51be4e8b303da58e634022a315b70e3a93592dac3f30dd510c7517454de8567a level 0
BTRFS warning (device loop0): checksum verify failed on logical 5292032 mirror 1 wanted 0x1924ccd683be9efc2fa98582ef58760e3848e9043db8649ee382681e220cdee4 found 0x0cb6184f6e8799d9f8cb335dccd1d1832da1071d12290dab3b85b587ecacca6e level 0
process 'repro' launched './file2' with NULL argv: empty string added
DEBUG: no csum root, idatacsums=0 ibadroots=134217728
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000041: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000208-0x000000000000020f]
CPU: 5 UID: 0 PID: 1010 Comm: repro Tainted: G OE 6.15.0-custom+ #249 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS unknown 02/02/2022
RIP: 0010:btrfs_lookup_csum+0x93/0x3d0 [btrfs]
Call Trace:
See more information about CVE-2025-38260 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD
NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
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 |
Platform | Errata | Release Date |
Oracle Linux version 10 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2025-20551 | 2025-09-08 |
Oracle Linux version 9 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2025-20551 | 2025-09-08 |
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