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CVE-2025-38269 (GCVE-0-2025-38269)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-10 07:41 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:24
VLAI
Title
btrfs: exit after state insertion failure at btrfs_convert_extent_bit()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: exit after state insertion failure at btrfs_convert_extent_bit() If insert_state() state failed it returns an error pointer and we call extent_io_tree_panic() which will trigger a BUG() call. However if CONFIG_BUG is disabled, which is an uncommon and exotic scenario, then we fallthrough and call cache_state() which will dereference the error pointer, resulting in an invalid memory access. So jump to the 'out' label after calling extent_io_tree_panic(), it also makes the code more clear besides dealing with the exotic scenario where CONFIG_BUG is disabled.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: c91ea4bfa6dda549295ea7c15dfc990094d1fcd3 , < 58c50f45e1821a04d61b62514f9bd34afe67c622 (git)
Affected: c91ea4bfa6dda549295ea7c15dfc990094d1fcd3 , < 8d9d32088e304e2bc444a3087cab0bbbd9951866 (git)
Affected: c91ea4bfa6dda549295ea7c15dfc990094d1fcd3 , < 3bf179e36da917c5d9bec71c714573ed1649b7c1 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.7
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.7 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.34 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.3 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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