CVE-2025-38652

f2fs: fix to avoid out-of-boundary access in devs.path

State
Published
Severity
7.3 High
Published
Aug 22, 2025
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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Description

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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.3 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 3c62be17d4f562f43fe1d03b48194399caa35aa5 to before dc0172c74bd9edaee7bea2ebb35f3dbd37a8ae80Affected
  • 3c62be17d4f562f43fe1d03b48194399caa35aa5 to before 1cf1ff15f262e8baf12201b270b6a79f9d119b2dAffected
  • 3c62be17d4f562f43fe1d03b48194399caa35aa5 to before 666b7cf6ac9aa074b8319a2b68cba7f2c30023f0Affected
  • 3c62be17d4f562f43fe1d03b48194399caa35aa5 to before 3466721f06edff834f99d9f49f23eabc6b2cb78eAffected
  • 3c62be17d4f562f43fe1d03b48194399caa35aa5 to before 345fc8d1838f3f8be7c8ed08d86a13dedef67136Affected
  • 3c62be17d4f562f43fe1d03b48194399caa35aa5 to before 70849d33130a2cf1d6010069ed200669c8651fbdAffected
  • 3c62be17d4f562f43fe1d03b48194399caa35aa5 to before 755427093e4294ac111c3f9e40d53f681a0fbdaaAffected
  • 3c62be17d4f562f43fe1d03b48194399caa35aa5 to before 1b1efa5f0e878745e94a98022e8edc675a87d78eAffected
  • 3c62be17d4f562f43fe1d03b48194399caa35aa5 to before 5661998536af52848cc4d52a377e90368196edeaAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.10Affected
  • before 4.10Not affected
  • 5.4.297 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.241 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.190 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.148 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.102 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.42 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.15.10 through 6.15.*Not affected
  • 6.16.1 through 6.16.*Not affected
  • 6.17 and laterNot affected

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