{"cve":"CVE-2025-38328","nvd":{"published":"2025-07-10T09:15:27.067","modified":"2026-06-17T09:16:38.050","status":"Analyzed","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\njffs2: check jffs2_prealloc_raw_node_refs() result in few other places\n\nFuzzing hit another invalid pointer dereference due to the lack of\nchecking whether jffs2_prealloc_raw_node_refs() completed successfully.\nSubsequent logic implies that the node refs have been allocated.\n\nHandle that. The code is ready for propagating the error upwards.\n\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]\nCPU: 1 PID: 5835 Comm: syz-executor145 Not tainted 5.10.234-syzkaller #0\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.12.0-1 04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:jffs2_link_node_ref+0xac/0x690 fs/jffs2/nodelist.c:600\nCall Trace:\n jffs2_mark_erased_block fs/jffs2/erase.c:460 [inline]\n jffs2_erase_pending_blocks+0x688/0x1860 fs/jffs2/erase.c:118\n jffs2_garbage_collect_pass+0x638/0x1a00 fs/jffs2/gc.c:253\n jffs2_reserve_space+0x3f4/0xad0 fs/jffs2/nodemgmt.c:167\n jffs2_write_inode_range+0x246/0xb50 fs/jffs2/write.c:362\n jffs2_write_end+0x712/0x1110 fs/jffs2/file.c:302\n generic_perform_write+0x2c2/0x500 mm/filemap.c:3347\n __generic_file_write_iter+0x252/0x610 mm/filemap.c:3465\n generic_file_write_iter+0xdb/0x230 mm/filemap.c:3497\n call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2039 [inline]\n do_iter_readv_writev+0x46d/0x750 fs/read_write.c:740\n do_iter_write+0x18c/0x710 fs/read_write.c:866\n vfs_writev+0x1db/0x6a0 fs/read_write.c:939\n do_pwritev fs/read_write.c:1036 [inline]\n __do_sys_pwritev fs/read_write.c:1083 [inline]\n __se_sys_pwritev fs/read_write.c:1078 [inline]\n __x64_sys_pwritev+0x235/0x310 fs/read_write.c:1078\n do_syscall_64+0x30/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x67/0xd1\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:N/I:N/A:H","score":5.5},"cwes":["CWE-476"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/042fa922c84b5080401bcd8897d4ac4919d15075","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b6d96503255a3ed676cd70f8368870c6d6a25c6","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/38d767fb4a7766ec2058f97787e4c6e8d10343d6","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e860296d7808de1db175c1eda29f94a2955dcc4","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd42ddddd70abc7127c12b96c8c85dbd080ea56f"],"products":["debian:debian_linux","linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:04:28.436527499+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2025-38328","score":0.00216,"percentile":0.12066,"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."]}