{"cve":"CVE-2025-37738","nvd":{"published":"2025-05-01T13:15:52.383","modified":"2026-10-15T22:18:16.920","status":"Modified","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: ignore xattrs past end\n\nOnce inside 'ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all' we should\nignore xattrs entries past the 'end' entry.\n\nThis fixes the following KASAN reported issue:\n\n==================================================================\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all+0xb8c/0xe90\nRead of size 4 at addr ffff888012c120c4 by task repro/2065\n\nCPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 2065 Comm: repro Not tainted 6.13.0-rc2+ #11\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\nCall Trace:\n <TASK>\n dump_stack_lvl+0x1fd/0x300\n ? tcp_gro_dev_warn+0x260/0x260\n ? _printk+0xc0/0x100\n ? read_lock_is_recursive+0x10/0x10\n ? irq_work_queue+0x72/0xf0\n ? __virt_addr_valid+0x17b/0x4b0\n print_address_description+0x78/0x390\n print_report+0x107/0x1f0\n ? __virt_addr_valid+0x17b/0x4b0\n ? __virt_addr_valid+0x3ff/0x4b0\n ? __phys_addr+0xb5/0x160\n ? ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all+0xb8c/0xe90\n kasan_report+0xcc/0x100\n ? ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all+0xb8c/0xe90\n ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all+0xb8c/0xe90\n ? ext4_xattr_delete_inode+0xd30/0xd30\n ? __ext4_journal_ensure_credits+0x5f0/0x5f0\n ? __ext4_journal_ensure_credits+0x2b/0x5f0\n ? inode_update_timestamps+0x410/0x410\n ext4_xattr_delete_inode+0xb64/0xd30\n ? ext4_truncate+0xb70/0xdc0\n ? ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea+0x1d20/0x1d20\n ? __ext4_mark_inode_dirty+0x670/0x670\n ? ext4_journal_check_start+0x16f/0x240\n ? ext4_inode_is_fast_symlink+0x2f2/0x3a0\n ext4_evict_inode+0xc8c/0xff0\n ? ext4_inode_is_fast_symlink+0x3a0/0x3a0\n ? do_raw_spin_unlock+0x53/0x8a0\n ? ext4_inode_is_fast_symlink+0x3a0/0x3a0\n evict+0x4ac/0x950\n ? proc_nr_inodes+0x310/0x310\n ? trace_ext4_drop_inode+0xa2/0x220\n ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x1a/0x30\n ? iput+0x4cb/0x7e0\n do_unlinkat+0x495/0x7c0\n ? try_break_deleg+0x120/0x120\n ? 0xffffffff81000000\n ? __check_object_size+0x15a/0x210\n ? strncpy_from_user+0x13e/0x250\n ? getname_flags+0x1dc/0x530\n __x64_sys_unlinkat+0xc8/0xf0\n do_syscall_64+0x65/0x110\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x67/0x6f\nRIP: 0033:0x434ffd\nCode: 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 00 f3 0f 1e fa 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 8\nRSP: 002b:00007ffc50fa7b28 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000107\nRAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffc50fa7e18 RCX: 0000000000434ffd\nRDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000020000240 RDI: 0000000000000005\nRBP: 00007ffc50fa7be0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000\nR10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001\nR13: 00007ffc50fa7e08 R14: 00000000004bbf30 R15: 0000000000000001\n </TASK>\n\nThe buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888012c12000\n which belongs to the cache filp of size 360\nThe buggy address is located 196 bytes inside of\n freed 360-byte region [ffff888012c12000, ffff888012c12168)\n\nThe buggy address belongs to the physical page:\npage: refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x12c12\nhead: order:1 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0\nflags: 0x40(head|node=0|zone=0)\npage_type: f5(slab)\nraw: 0000000000000040 ffff888000ad7640 ffffea0000497a00 dead000000000004\nraw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000001f5000000 0000000000000000\nhead: 0000000000000040 ffff888000ad7640 ffffea0000497a00 dead000000000004\nhead: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000001f5000000 0000000000000000\nhead: 0000000000000001 ffffea00004b0481 ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000\nhead: 0000000000000002 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000\npage dumped because: kasan: bad access detected\n\nMemory state around the buggy address:\n ffff888012c11f80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00\n ffff888012c12000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb\n> ffff888012c12080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb\n                                           ^\n ffff888012c12100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc\n ffff888012c12180: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc\n---truncated---","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","score":7.8},"cwes":["CWE-416"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/362a90cecd36e8a5c415966d0b75b04a0270e4dd","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3bc6317033f365ce578eb6039445fb66162722fd","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6aff941cb0f7d0c897c3698ad2e30672709135e3","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/76c365fa7e2a8bb85f0190cdb4b8cdc99b2fdce3","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/836e625b03a666cf93ff5be328c8cb30336db872"],"products":["debian:debian_linux","linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:01:11.054312287+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2025-37738","score":0.00216,"percentile":0.11914,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). 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