GHSA-X2W5-5JVP-3P83
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-07-04 15:31 – Updated: 2025-12-18 21:31In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
jfs: validate AG parameters in dbMount() to prevent crashes
Validate db_agheight, db_agwidth, and db_agstart in dbMount to catch corrupted metadata early and avoid undefined behavior in dbAllocAG. Limits are derived from L2LPERCTL, LPERCTL/MAXAG, and CTLTREESIZE:
- agheight: 0 to L2LPERCTL/2 (0 to 5) ensures shift (L2LPERCTL - 2*agheight) >= 0.
- agwidth: 1 to min(LPERCTL/MAXAG, 2^(L2LPERCTL - 2*agheight)) ensures agperlev >= 1.
- Ranges: 1-8 (agheight 0-3), 1-4 (agheight 4), 1 (agheight 5).
- LPERCTL/MAXAG = 1024/128 = 8 limits leaves per AG; 2^(10 - 2*agheight) prevents division to 0.
- agstart: 0 to CTLTREESIZE-1 - agwidth*(MAXAG-1) keeps ti within stree (size 1365).
- Ranges: 0-1237 (agwidth 1), 0-348 (agwidth 8).
UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in fs/jfs/jfs_dmap.c:1400:9 shift exponent -335544310 is negative CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5822 Comm: syz-executor130 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc5-syzkaller #0 Hardware name: Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2025 Call Trace: __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:120 ubsan_epilogue lib/ubsan.c:231 [inline] __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x3c8/0x420 lib/ubsan.c:468 dbAllocAG+0x1087/0x10b0 fs/jfs/jfs_dmap.c:1400 dbDiscardAG+0x352/0xa20 fs/jfs/jfs_dmap.c:1613 jfs_ioc_trim+0x45a/0x6b0 fs/jfs/jfs_discard.c:105 jfs_ioctl+0x2cd/0x3e0 fs/jfs/ioctl.c:131 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline] __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:906 [inline] __se_sys_ioctl+0xf5/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:892 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2025-38230"
],
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"cwe_ids": [],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2025-07-04T14:15:32Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "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) \u003e= 0.\n- agwidth: 1 to min(LPERCTL/MAXAG, 2^(L2LPERCTL - 2*agheight))\n ensures agperlev \u003e= 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 \u003cTASK\u003e\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.",
"id": "GHSA-x2w5-5jvp-3p83",
"modified": "2025-12-18T21:31:34Z",
"published": "2025-07-04T15:31:10Z",
"references": [
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"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38230"
},
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"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c40fa81f850556e9aa0185fede9ef1112db7b39"
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"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37bfb464ddca87f203071b5bd562cd91ddc0b40a"
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"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8b69608c6b6779a7ab07ce4467a56df90152cfb9"
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"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9242ff6245527a3ebb693ddd175493b38ddca72f"
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"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/95ae5ee6069d9a5945772625f289422ef659221a"
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"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a4259e72363e1ea204a97292001a9fc36c7e52fd"
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"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b62a1e59d8716bbd2e73660743fe06acc97ed7d1"
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"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c3705c82b7406a15ef38a610d03bf6baa43d6e0c"
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{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html"
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{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html"
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"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
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}
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