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        {
          "lang": "en",
          "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfuse: fix runtime warning on truncate_folio_batch_exceptionals()\n\nThe WARN_ON_ONCE is introduced on truncate_folio_batch_exceptionals() to\ncapture whether the filesystem has removed all DAX entries or not.\n\nAnd the fix has been applied on the filesystem xfs and ext4 by the commit\n0e2f80afcfa6 (\"fs/dax: ensure all pages are idle prior to filesystem\nunmount\").\n\nApply the missed fix on filesystem fuse to fix the runtime warning:\n\n[    2.011450] ------------[ cut here ]------------\n[    2.011873] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 145 at mm/truncate.c:89 truncate_folio_batch_exceptionals+0x272/0x2b0\n[    2.012468] Modules linked in:\n[    2.012718] CPU: 0 UID: 1000 PID: 145 Comm: weston Not tainted 6.16.0-rc2-WSL2-STABLE #2 PREEMPT(undef)\n[    2.013292] RIP: 0010:truncate_folio_batch_exceptionals+0x272/0x2b0\n[    2.013704] Code: 48 63 d0 41 29 c5 48 8d 1c d5 00 00 00 00 4e 8d 6c 2a 01 49 c1 e5 03 eb 09 48 83 c3 08 49 39 dd 74 83 41 f6 44 1c 08 01 74 ef \u003c0f\u003e 0b 49 8b 34 1e 48 89 ef e8 10 a2 17 00 eb df 48 8b 7d 00 e8 35\n[    2.014845] RSP: 0018:ffffa47ec33f3b10 EFLAGS: 00010202\n[    2.015279] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000\n[    2.015884] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffa47ec33f3ca0 RDI: ffff98aa44f3fa80\n[    2.016377] RBP: ffff98aa44f3fbf0 R08: ffffa47ec33f3ba8 R09: 0000000000000000\n[    2.016942] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffa47ec33f3ca0\n[    2.017437] R13: 0000000000000008 R14: ffffa47ec33f3ba8 R15: 0000000000000000\n[    2.017972] FS:  000079ce006afa40(0000) GS:ffff98aade441000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n[    2.018510] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n[    2.018987] CR2: 000079ce03e74000 CR3: 000000010784f006 CR4: 0000000000372eb0\n[    2.019518] Call Trace:\n[    2.019729]  \u003cTASK\u003e\n[    2.019901]  truncate_inode_pages_range+0xd8/0x400\n[    2.020280]  ? timerqueue_add+0x66/0xb0\n[    2.020574]  ? get_nohz_timer_target+0x2a/0x140\n[    2.020904]  ? timerqueue_add+0x66/0xb0\n[    2.021231]  ? timerqueue_del+0x2e/0x50\n[    2.021646]  ? __remove_hrtimer+0x39/0x90\n[    2.022017]  ? srso_alias_untrain_ret+0x1/0x10\n[    2.022497]  ? psi_group_change+0x136/0x350\n[    2.023046]  ? _raw_spin_unlock+0xe/0x30\n[    2.023514]  ? finish_task_switch.isra.0+0x8d/0x280\n[    2.024068]  ? __schedule+0x532/0xbd0\n[    2.024551]  fuse_evict_inode+0x29/0x190\n[    2.025131]  evict+0x100/0x270\n[    2.025641]  ? _atomic_dec_and_lock+0x39/0x50\n[    2.026316]  ? __pfx_generic_delete_inode+0x10/0x10\n[    2.026843]  __dentry_kill+0x71/0x180\n[    2.027335]  dput+0xeb/0x1b0\n[    2.027725]  __fput+0x136/0x2b0\n[    2.028054]  __x64_sys_close+0x3d/0x80\n[    2.028469]  do_syscall_64+0x6d/0x1b0\n[    2.028832]  ? clear_bhb_loop+0x30/0x80\n[    2.029182]  ? clear_bhb_loop+0x30/0x80\n[    2.029533]  ? clear_bhb_loop+0x30/0x80\n[    2.029902]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n[    2.030423] RIP: 0033:0x79ce03d0d067\n[    2.030820] Code: b8 ff ff ff ff e9 3e ff ff ff 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 10 b8 03 00 00 00 0f 05 \u003c48\u003e 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 41 c3 48 83 ec 18 89 7c 24 0c e8 c3 a7 f8 ff\n[    2.032354] RSP: 002b:00007ffef0498948 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000003\n[    2.032939] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffef0498960 RCX: 000079ce03d0d067\n[    2.033612] RDX: 0000000000000003 RSI: 0000000000001000 RDI: 000000000000000d\n[    2.034289] RBP: 00007ffef0498a30 R08: 000000000000000d R09: 0000000000000000\n[    2.034944] R10: 00007ffef0498978 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001\n[    2.035610] R13: 00007ffef0498960 R14: 000079ce03e09ce0 R15: 0000000000000003\n[    2.036301]  \u003c/TASK\u003e\n[    2.036532] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---"
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          "cvssV3_1": {
            "baseScore": 7.8,
            "baseSeverity": "HIGH",
            "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
            "version": "3.1"
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              "value": "AV:L - The vulnerable path is reached through ordinary local syscalls (mmap/munmap/close, or umount) on a mounted virtiofs-DAX filesystem, ending in fuse_evict_inode(). No network or adjacent-network exposure exists.\nAC:L - Triggering is deterministic \u2014 mmap and fault a page of a DAX-backed virtiofs file, then drop the last reference so the inode is evicted with DAX entries still in the xarray; the reported splat came from a normal desktop process doing close(). For the pinned-page corruption variant the attacker controls both sides (it establishes the GUP/DMA pin and drops the last inode reference itself).\nPR:L - Any unprivileged local user (UID 1000 in the original report) or container workload with access to the virtiofs mount can trigger it; only ordinary file access is required, not CAP_SYS_ADMIN. Mounting virtiofs with dax is environment setup, not an attacker prerequisite.\nUI:N - The attacker performs all steps itself \u2014 open, mmap, fault, close \u2014 with no action from any other user or administrator.\nS:U - The corruption and crash are confined to the kernel that skipped the layout break; there is no VM escape or IOMMU/DMA boundary bypass, since FUSE_REMOVEMAPPING still tears down the host-side window mapping.\nC:H - Evicting without waiting for idle pages lets a DAX-window range still under DMA be freed and re-assigned via FUSE_SETUPMAPPING to a different inode, so an in-flight read pulls another file\u0027s contents into attacker memory \u2014 the cross-file exposure the parent commit 0e2f80afcfa6 documents; stale folio-\u003emapping pointing at the freed address_space adds a use-after-free read path.\nI:H - The same reallocated window range means an outstanding DMA write lands in host memory now backing an unrelated file, corrupting its data; on top of that, ClearPageHead()/clear_compound_head()/folio-\u003emapping=NULL are applied to a folio whose refcount is still elevated, corrupting page state for a pinned compound folio.\nA:H - The bug produces a kernel WARNING at mm/truncate.c:89, which is a panic on any system running panic_on_warn (common in hardened/production and CI deployments), and the torn-down-while-pinned folio state leads to further refcount corruption and crashes when the pin is later released."
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        "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T12:01:21.316Z",
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          "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b48878aee8e7311411148c7a67c8f0b02f571d75"
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          "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/befd9a71d859ea625eaa84dae1b243efb3df3eca"
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    "assignerShortName": "Linux",
    "cveId": "CVE-2025-38357",
    "datePublished": "2025-07-25T12:47:28.733Z",
    "dateReserved": "2025-04-16T04:51:24.007Z",
    "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T12:01:21.316Z",
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