CVE-2025-37738

HIGH EPSS 5.6%
Published May 1, 20251y ago · Modified Jun 17, 20261w ago
7.8 CVSS 3.1
High
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Published May 1, 2025 1y ago
Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 1w ago

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: ignore xattrs past end Once inside 'ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all' we should ignore xattrs entries past the 'end' entry. This fixes the following KASAN reported issue: ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all+0xb8c/0xe90 Read of size 4 at addr ffff888012c120c4 by task repro/2065 CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 2065 Comm: repro Not tainted 6.13.0-rc2+ #11 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x1fd/0x300 ? tcp_gro_dev_warn+0x260/0x260 ? _printk+0xc0/0x100 ? read_lock_is_recursive+0x10/0x10 ? irq_work_queue+0x72/0xf0 ? __virt_addr_valid+0x17b/0x4b0 print_address_description+0x78/0x390 print_report+0x107/0x1f0 ? __virt_addr_valid+0x17b/0x4b0 ? __virt_addr_valid+0x3ff/0x4b0 ? __phys_addr+0xb5/0x160 ? ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all+0xb8c/0xe90 kasan_report+0xcc/0x100 ? ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all+0xb8c/0xe90 ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all+0xb8c/0xe90 ? ext4_xattr_delete_inode+0xd30/0xd30 ? __ext4_journal_ensure_credits+0x5f0/0x5f0 ? __ext4_journal_ensure_credits+0x2b/0x5f0 ? inode_update_timestamps+0x410/0x410 ext4_xattr_delete_inode+0xb64/0xd30 ? ext4_truncate+0xb70/0xdc0 ? ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea+0x1d20/0x1d20 ? __ext4_mark_inode_dirty+0x670/0x670 ? ext4_journal_check_start+0x16f/0x240 ? ext4_inode_is_fast_symlink+0x2f2/0x3a0 ext4_evict_inode+0xc8c/0xff0 ? ext4_inode_is_fast_symlink+0x3a0/0x3a0 ? do_raw_spin_unlock+0x53/0x8a0 ? ext4_inode_is_fast_symlink+0x3a0/0x3a0 evict+0x4ac/0x950 ? proc_nr_inodes+0x310/0x310 ? trace_ext4_drop_inode+0xa2/0x220 ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x1a/0x30 ? iput+0x4cb/0x7e0 do_unlinkat+0x495/0x7c0 ? try_break_deleg+0x120/0x120 ? 0xffffffff81000000 ? __check_object_size+0x15a/0x210 ? strncpy_from_user+0x13e/0x250 ? getname_flags+0x1dc/0x530 __x64_sys_unlinkat+0xc8/0xf0 do_syscall_64+0x65/0x110 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x67/0x6f RIP: 0033:0x434ffd Code: 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 00 f3 0f 1e fa 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 8 RSP: 002b:00007ffc50fa7b28 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000107 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffc50fa7e18 RCX: 0000000000434ffd RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000020000240 RDI: 0000000000000005 RBP: 00007ffc50fa7be0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001 R13: 00007ffc50fa7e08 R14: 00000000004bbf30 R15: 0000000000000001 </TASK> The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888012c12000 which belongs to the cache filp of size 360 The buggy address is located 196 bytes inside of freed 360-byte region [ffff888012c12000, ffff888012c12168) The buggy address belongs to the physical page: page: refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x12c12 head: order:1 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0 flags: 0x40(head|node=0|zone=0) page_type: f5(slab) raw: 0000000000000040 ffff888000ad7640 ffffea0000497a00 dead000000000004 raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000001f5000000 0000000000000000 head: 0000000000000040 ffff888000ad7640 ffffea0000497a00 dead000000000004 head: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000001f5000000 0000000000000000 head: 0000000000000001 ffffea00004b0481 ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 head: 0000000000000002 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected Memory state around the buggy address: ffff888012c11f80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ffff888012c12000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb > ffff888012c12080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb ^ ffff888012c12100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc ffff888012c12180: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc ---truncated---

CVSS Details

Base Score
7.8
Exploitability
1.8
Impact
5.9
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity High
Availability High

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability
5.6% percentile
Exploit & Patch Status
No Known Exploit
Patch Available

Weaknesses 1

CWE-416 Use After Free Memory Safety

Affected Products 9

VendorProductVersionRange
linuxlinux_kernel* <5.4.293
linuxlinux_kernel*≥5.5  –  <5.10.237
linuxlinux_kernel*≥5.11  –  <5.15.181
linuxlinux_kernel*≥5.16  –  <6.1.135
linuxlinux_kernel*≥6.2  –  <6.6.88
linuxlinux_kernel*≥6.7  –  <6.12.24
linuxlinux_kernel*≥6.13  –  <6.13.12
linuxlinux_kernel*≥6.14  –  <6.14.3
debiandebian_linux11.0any

References 11

  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/362a90cecd36e8a5c415966d0b75b04a0270e4dd
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3bc6317033f365ce578eb6039445fb66162722fd
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6aff941cb0f7d0c897c3698ad2e30672709135e3
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/76c365fa7e2a8bb85f0190cdb4b8cdc99b2fdce3
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/836e625b03a666cf93ff5be328c8cb30336db872
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c8e008b60492cf6fd31ef127aea6d02fd3d314cd
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf9291a3449b04688b81e32621e88de8f4314b54
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb59cc31b6ea076021d14b04e7faab1636b87d0e
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f737418b6de31c962c7192777ee4018906975383
    Patch
  • lists.debian.org https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00030.html
    Mailing List
  • lists.debian.org https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00045.html
    Mailing List

Remediation

  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/362a90cecd36e8a5c415966d0b75b04a0270e4dd
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3bc6317033f365ce578eb6039445fb66162722fd
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6aff941cb0f7d0c897c3698ad2e30672709135e3
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/76c365fa7e2a8bb85f0190cdb4b8cdc99b2fdce3
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/836e625b03a666cf93ff5be328c8cb30336db872
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c8e008b60492cf6fd31ef127aea6d02fd3d314cd
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf9291a3449b04688b81e32621e88de8f4314b54
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb59cc31b6ea076021d14b04e7faab1636b87d0e
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f737418b6de31c962c7192777ee4018906975383
    Patch