CVE-2025-38627 (GCVE-0-2025-38627)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-22 16:00 – Updated: 2026-06-01 16:05
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Title
f2fs: compress: fix UAF of f2fs_inode_info in f2fs_free_dic
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: compress: fix UAF of f2fs_inode_info in f2fs_free_dic The decompress_io_ctx may be released asynchronously after I/O completion. If this file is deleted immediately after read, and the kworker of processing post_read_wq has not been executed yet due to high workloads, It is possible that the inode(f2fs_inode_info) is evicted and freed before it is used f2fs_free_dic. The UAF case as below: Thread A Thread B - f2fs_decompress_end_io - f2fs_put_dic - queue_work add free_dic work to post_read_wq - do_unlink - iput - evict - call_rcu This file is deleted after read. Thread C kworker to process post_read_wq - rcu_do_batch - f2fs_free_inode - kmem_cache_free inode is freed by rcu - process_scheduled_works - f2fs_late_free_dic - f2fs_free_dic - f2fs_release_decomp_mem read (dic->inode)->i_compress_algorithm This patch store compress_algorithm and sbi in dic to avoid inode UAF. In addition, the previous solution is deprecated in [1] may cause system hang. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/c36ab955-c8db-4a8b-a9d0-f07b5f426c3f@kernel.org
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: bff139b49d9f70c1ac5384aac94554846aa834de , < 74cbeeca4f16823ba58c882e1d8b836c0e39c93d (git)
Affected: bff139b49d9f70c1ac5384aac94554846aa834de , < 5d604d40cd3232b09cb339941ef958e49283ed0a (git)
Affected: bff139b49d9f70c1ac5384aac94554846aa834de , < cc81768212cdc509e5a986274db7bc24d18cde19 (git)
Affected: bff139b49d9f70c1ac5384aac94554846aa834de , < 8fae5b6addd5f6895e03797b56e3c7b9f9cd15c9 (git)
Affected: bff139b49d9f70c1ac5384aac94554846aa834de , < 39868685c2a94a70762bc6d77dc81d781d05bff5 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.0
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.0 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.175 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.118 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.78 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16.1 , ≤ 6.16.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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