CVE-2025-38337 (GCVE-0-2025-38337)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-10 08:15 – Updated: 2026-11-05 21:02
VLAI
Title
jbd2: fix data-race and null-ptr-deref in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: jbd2: fix data-race and null-ptr-deref in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata() Since handle->h_transaction may be a NULL pointer, so we should change it to call is_handle_aborted(handle) first before dereferencing it. And the following data-race was reported in my fuzzer: ================================================================== BUG: KCSAN: data-race in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata / jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata write to 0xffff888011024104 of 4 bytes by task 10881 on cpu 1: jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata+0x2a5/0x770 fs/jbd2/transaction.c:1556 __ext4_handle_dirty_metadata+0xe7/0x4b0 fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c:358 ext4_do_update_inode fs/ext4/inode.c:5220 [inline] ext4_mark_iloc_dirty+0x32c/0xd50 fs/ext4/inode.c:5869 __ext4_mark_inode_dirty+0xe1/0x450 fs/ext4/inode.c:6074 ext4_dirty_inode+0x98/0xc0 fs/ext4/inode.c:6103 .... read to 0xffff888011024104 of 4 bytes by task 10880 on cpu 0: jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata+0xf2/0x770 fs/jbd2/transaction.c:1512 __ext4_handle_dirty_metadata+0xe7/0x4b0 fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c:358 ext4_do_update_inode fs/ext4/inode.c:5220 [inline] ext4_mark_iloc_dirty+0x32c/0xd50 fs/ext4/inode.c:5869 __ext4_mark_inode_dirty+0xe1/0x450 fs/ext4/inode.c:6074 ext4_dirty_inode+0x98/0xc0 fs/ext4/inode.c:6103 .... value changed: 0x00000000 -> 0x00000001 ================================================================== This issue is caused by missing data-race annotation for jh->b_modified. Therefore, the missing annotation needs to be added.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-11-05 20:54 UTC
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6641 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 6e06ae88edae77379bef7c0cb7d3c2dd88676867 , < 5c1a34ff5b0bfdfd2f9343aa9b08d25df618bac5 (git)
Affected: 6e06ae88edae77379bef7c0cb7d3c2dd88676867 , < ec669e5bf409f16e464bfad75f0ba039a45de29a (git)
Affected: 6e06ae88edae77379bef7c0cb7d3c2dd88676867 , < 43d5e3bb5f1dcd91e30238ea0b59a5f77063f84e (git)
Affected: 6e06ae88edae77379bef7c0cb7d3c2dd88676867 , < 23361b479f2700c00960d3ae9cdc8ededa762d47 (git)
Affected: 6e06ae88edae77379bef7c0cb7d3c2dd88676867 , < 2e7c64d7a92c031d016f11c8e8cb05131ab7b75a (git)
Affected: 6e06ae88edae77379bef7c0cb7d3c2dd88676867 , < f78b38af3540b4875147b7b884ee11a27b3dbf4c (git)
Affected: 6e06ae88edae77379bef7c0cb7d3c2dd88676867 , < a377996d714afb8d4d5f4906336f78510039da29 (git)
Affected: 6e06ae88edae77379bef7c0cb7d3c2dd88676867 , < af98b0157adf6504fade79b3e6cb260c4ff68e37 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.3
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.3 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.295 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.239 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.186 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.142 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.95 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.35 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.4 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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How durations are calculated

Following the VTEM framework (Black Hat USA 2015), time to patch starts when the vendor or a coordinator was informed, total time to patch at discovery, and disclosure to patch at public disclosure; vendor response time runs from the report to its acknowledgement. Time to exploit and time unpatched start at the earliest discovery or report, falling back to public disclosure. Unpatched time ends at the first recorded patch, or the calculation time when no patch is recorded. Exploitation to patch shows the interval between those two events; a published proof of concept is a public exploit, not exploitation.

Each result shows its source dates. A negative interval means the end event came first; when date-only inputs leave the order open, the result says so. Date-only inputs are approximate. The earliest evidence wins: KEV report dates and sightings are labelled as such. Records describing another vulnerability are listed but never calculated from, and a PoC alone does not establish exploitation. Missing patch evidence does not prove that no patch exists. Filters below change the event list only.

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