CVE-2025-40333 (GCVE-0-2025-40333)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-09 04:09 – Updated: 2025-12-20 08:52
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Title
f2fs: fix infinite loop in __insert_extent_tree()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix infinite loop in __insert_extent_tree() When we get wrong extent info data, and look up extent_node in rb tree, it will cause infinite loop (CONFIG_F2FS_CHECK_FS=n). Avoiding this by return NULL and print some kernel messages in that case.
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Linux Linux Affected: 98e4da8ca301e062d79ae168c67e56f3c3de3ce4 , < 765f8816d3959ef1f3f7f85e2af748594d091f40 (git)
Affected: 98e4da8ca301e062d79ae168c67e56f3c3de3ce4 , < c0b9951bb2668d67eb4817bb23fc109abc08c075 (git)
Affected: 98e4da8ca301e062d79ae168c67e56f3c3de3ce4 , < f4c31adcb2a0556f43776d4e51a67de88d7fb9ee (git)
Affected: 98e4da8ca301e062d79ae168c67e56f3c3de3ce4 , < 23361bd54966b437e1ed3eb1a704572f4b279e58 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 3.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.117 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.58 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.8 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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