{"cve":"CVE-2025-38230","nvd":{"published":"2025-07-04T14:15:32.550","modified":"2026-07-30T06:23:01.607","status":"Modified","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\njfs: validate AG parameters in dbMount() to prevent crashes\n\nValidate db_agheight, db_agwidth, and db_agstart in dbMount to catch\ncorrupted metadata early and avoid undefined behavior in dbAllocAG.\nLimits are derived from L2LPERCTL, LPERCTL/MAXAG, and CTLTREESIZE:\n\n- agheight: 0 to L2LPERCTL/2 (0 to 5) ensures shift\n  (L2LPERCTL - 2*agheight) >= 0.\n- agwidth: 1 to min(LPERCTL/MAXAG, 2^(L2LPERCTL - 2*agheight))\n  ensures agperlev >= 1.\n  - Ranges: 1-8 (agheight 0-3), 1-4 (agheight 4), 1 (agheight 5).\n  - LPERCTL/MAXAG = 1024/128 = 8 limits leaves per AG;\n    2^(10 - 2*agheight) prevents division to 0.\n- agstart: 0 to CTLTREESIZE-1 - agwidth*(MAXAG-1) keeps ti within\n  stree (size 1365).\n  - Ranges: 0-1237 (agwidth 1), 0-348 (agwidth 8).\n\nUBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in fs/jfs/jfs_dmap.c:1400:9\nshift exponent -335544310 is negative\nCPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5822 Comm: syz-executor130 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc5-syzkaller #0\nHardware name: Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2025\nCall Trace:\n <TASK>\n __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]\n dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:120\n ubsan_epilogue lib/ubsan.c:231 [inline]\n __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x3c8/0x420 lib/ubsan.c:468\n dbAllocAG+0x1087/0x10b0 fs/jfs/jfs_dmap.c:1400\n dbDiscardAG+0x352/0xa20 fs/jfs/jfs_dmap.c:1613\n jfs_ioc_trim+0x45a/0x6b0 fs/jfs/jfs_discard.c:105\n jfs_ioctl+0x2cd/0x3e0 fs/jfs/ioctl.c:131\n vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]\n __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:906 [inline]\n __se_sys_ioctl+0xf5/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:892\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n\nFound by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.","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":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c40fa81f850556e9aa0185fede9ef1112db7b39","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37bfb464ddca87f203071b5bd562cd91ddc0b40a","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8b69608c6b6779a7ab07ce4467a56df90152cfb9","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9242ff6245527a3ebb693ddd175493b38ddca72f","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/95ae5ee6069d9a5945772625f289422ef659221a"],"products":["debian:debian_linux","linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:04:28.436527499+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2025-38230","score":0.00191,"percentile":0.08837,"date":"2026-10-31"},"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). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}