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medium 5.5

CVE-2025-38663 json

nilfs2: reject invalid file types when reading inodes

published 2025-08-22 14 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-25538

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 7%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nilfs2: reject invalid file types when reading inodes

To prevent inodes with invalid file types from tripping through the vfs and causing malfunctions or assertion failures, add a missing sanity check when reading an inode from a block device. If the file type is not valid, treat it as a filesystem error.

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 5.4.297, 5.10.241, 5.15.190, 6.1.148, 6.6.101, 6.12.41, 6.15.9, 6.16
  • linux Debian 12 6.1.148-1
  • linux Debian 13 6.12.41-1
  • linux Debian 14 6.16.3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38663

  • linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-163.173
  • linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-100.100
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1097.104
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1046.49
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1097.106
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1047.50
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1093.99
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1043.48

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38663

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kernel-azure SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.8.52.1
  • kernel-syms-azure SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.8.52.1
  • kernel-source-azure SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.8.52.1
  • kernel-azure SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.20.15.2
  • kernel-syms-azure SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.20.15.1
  • kernel-source-azure SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.20.15.2
  • kernel-coco SLE Module for Confidential Computing Technical Preview 15 SP6 6.4.0-15061.32.coco15sp6.1
  • kernel-syms-coco SLE Module for Confidential Computing Technical Preview 15 SP6 6.4.0-15061.32.coco15sp6.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:03634-1SUSE-SU-2025:03633-1SUSE-SU-2025:03602-1SUSE-SU-2025:03382-1SUSE-SU-2025:20739-1SUSE-SU-2025:20756-1

  • kernel Azure Linux 3.0 6.6.104.2-1

azure linux advisories AZL-66626

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-38663 updated

kernel: nilfs2: reject invalid file types when reading inodes

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 7% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

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Sources

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