{"cve":"CVE-2025-38243","nvd":{"published":"2025-07-09T11:15:26.350","modified":"2026-06-17T09:16:27.990","status":"Analyzed","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: fix invalid inode pointer dereferences during log replay\n\nIn a few places where we call read_one_inode(), if we get a NULL pointer\nwe end up jumping into an error path, or fallthrough in case of\n__add_inode_ref(), where we then do something like this:\n\n   iput(&inode->vfs_inode);\n\nwhich results in an invalid inode pointer that triggers an invalid memory\naccess, resulting in a crash.\n\nFix this by making sure we don't do such dereferences.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":5.5},"cwes":["CWE-476"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2dcf838cf5c2f0f4501edaa1680fcad03618d760","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/401d098f92ea69d8a75f8b845daf343e511681ba","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba8386d662cc51cc5382688bbf7a152b0b0b27cf"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:04:28.436527499+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2025-38243","score":0.00164,"percentile":0.05575,"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."]}