FKIE_CVE-2025-68266

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-12-16 15:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 09:58
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bfs: Reconstruct file type when loading from disk syzbot is reporting that S_IFMT bits of inode->i_mode can become bogus when the S_IFMT bits of the 32bits "mode" field loaded from disk are corrupted or when the 32bits "attributes" field loaded from disk are corrupted. A documentation says that BFS uses only lower 9 bits of the "mode" field. But I can't find an explicit explanation that the unused upper 23 bits (especially, the S_IFMT bits) are initialized with 0. Therefore, ignore the S_IFMT bits of the "mode" field loaded from disk. Also, verify that the value of the "attributes" field loaded from disk is either BFS_VREG or BFS_VDIR (because BFS supports only regular files and the root directory).
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34ab4c75588c07cca12884f2bf6b0347c7a13872
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/77899444d46162aeb65f229590c26ba266864223
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f73336b75bd3457b6f9410f2a0601a238f32238
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8cb796e7e2cb7971311ba236922f5e7e1be77e6
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9f626396bfe66f49b743601e862767928237cc0
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aeccd6743ee4fdd1ab8cfcbb5b9a20b613418f6d
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d0c5ec1f57d8fbb953f166a27d9d32473dc8f3e4
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      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbfs: Reconstruct file type when loading from disk\n\nsyzbot is reporting that S_IFMT bits of inode-\u003ei_mode can become bogus when\nthe S_IFMT bits of the 32bits \"mode\" field loaded from disk are corrupted\nor when the 32bits \"attributes\" field loaded from disk are corrupted.\n\nA documentation says that BFS uses only lower 9 bits of the \"mode\" field.\nBut I can\u0027t find an explicit explanation that the unused upper 23 bits\n(especially, the S_IFMT bits) are initialized with 0.\n\nTherefore, ignore the S_IFMT bits of the \"mode\" field loaded from disk.\nAlso, verify that the value of the \"attributes\" field loaded from disk is\neither BFS_VREG or BFS_VDIR (because BFS supports only regular files and\nthe root directory)."
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  "published": "2025-12-16T15:15:56.140",
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  "vulnStatus": "Deferred"
}


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