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CVE-2025-37738— ext4: ignore xattrs past end

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Linux Linux
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Linux kernel是美国Linux基金会的开源操作系统Linux所使用的内核。 Linux kernel存在安全漏洞，该漏洞源于忽略xattrs条目，可能导致内存访问越界。

CVSS 7.8 · High EPSS 0.20% · P10

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T1211 · Exploitation for Stealth

Affected Version Matrix 20

VendorProduct Version RangeStatus
Linux Linux e50e5129f384ae282adebfb561189cdb19b81cee< 6aff941cb0f7d0c897c3698ad2e30672709135e3 affected
e50e5129f384ae282adebfb561189cdb19b81cee< 76c365fa7e2a8bb85f0190cdb4b8cdc99b2fdce3 affected
e50e5129f384ae282adebfb561189cdb19b81cee< f737418b6de31c962c7192777ee4018906975383 affected
e50e5129f384ae282adebfb561189cdb19b81cee< cf9291a3449b04688b81e32621e88de8f4314b54 affected
e50e5129f384ae282adebfb561189cdb19b81cee< 362a90cecd36e8a5c415966d0b75b04a0270e4dd affected
e50e5129f384ae282adebfb561189cdb19b81cee< eb59cc31b6ea076021d14b04e7faab1636b87d0e affected
e50e5129f384ae282adebfb561189cdb19b81cee< 3bc6317033f365ce578eb6039445fb66162722fd affected
e50e5129f384ae282adebfb561189cdb19b81cee< 836e625b03a666cf93ff5be328c8cb30336db872 affected
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Vulnerability Title
ext4: ignore xattrs past end
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: ignore xattrs past end Once inside 'ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all' we should ignore xattrs entries past the 'end' entry. This fixes the following KASAN reported issue: ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all+0xb8c/0xe90 Read of size 4 at addr ffff888012c120c4 by task repro/2065 CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 2065 Comm: repro Not tainted 6.13.0-rc2+ #11 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x1fd/0x300 ? tcp_gro_dev_warn+0x260/0x260 ? _printk+0xc0/0x100 ? read_lock_is_recursive+0x10/0x10 ? irq_work_queue+0x72/0xf0 ? __virt_addr_valid+0x17b/0x4b0 print_address_description+0x78/0x390 print_report+0x107/0x1f0 ? __virt_addr_valid+0x17b/0x4b0 ? __virt_addr_valid+0x3ff/0x4b0 ? __phys_addr+0xb5/0x160 ? ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all+0xb8c/0xe90 kasan_report+0xcc/0x100 ? ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all+0xb8c/0xe90 ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all+0xb8c/0xe90 ? ext4_xattr_delete_inode+0xd30/0xd30 ? __ext4_journal_ensure_credits+0x5f0/0x5f0 ? __ext4_journal_ensure_credits+0x2b/0x5f0 ? inode_update_timestamps+0x410/0x410 ext4_xattr_delete_inode+0xb64/0xd30 ? ext4_truncate+0xb70/0xdc0 ? ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea+0x1d20/0x1d20 ? __ext4_mark_inode_dirty+0x670/0x670 ? ext4_journal_check_start+0x16f/0x240 ? ext4_inode_is_fast_symlink+0x2f2/0x3a0 ext4_evict_inode+0xc8c/0xff0 ? ext4_inode_is_fast_symlink+0x3a0/0x3a0 ? do_raw_spin_unlock+0x53/0x8a0 ? ext4_inode_is_fast_symlink+0x3a0/0x3a0 evict+0x4ac/0x950 ? proc_nr_inodes+0x310/0x310 ? trace_ext4_drop_inode+0xa2/0x220 ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x1a/0x30 ? iput+0x4cb/0x7e0 do_unlinkat+0x495/0x7c0 ? try_break_deleg+0x120/0x120 ? 0xffffffff81000000 ? __check_object_size+0x15a/0x210 ? strncpy_from_user+0x13e/0x250 ? getname_flags+0x1dc/0x530 __x64_sys_unlinkat+0xc8/0xf0 do_syscall_64+0x65/0x110 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x67/0x6f RIP: 0033:0x434ffd Code: 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 00 f3 0f 1e fa 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 8 RSP: 002b:00007ffc50fa7b28 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000107 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffc50fa7e18 RCX: 0000000000434ffd RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000020000240 RDI: 0000000000000005 RBP: 00007ffc50fa7be0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001 R13: 00007ffc50fa7e08 R14: 00000000004bbf30 R15: 0000000000000001 </TASK> The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888012c12000 which belongs to the cache filp of size 360 The buggy address is located 196 bytes inside of freed 360-byte region [ffff888012c12000, ffff888012c12168) The buggy address belongs to the physical page: page: refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x12c12 head: order:1 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0 flags: 0x40(head|node=0|zone=0) page_type: f5(slab) raw: 0000000000000040 ffff888000ad7640 ffffea0000497a00 dead000000000004 raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000001f5000000 0000000000000000 head: 0000000000000040 ffff888000ad7640 ffffea0000497a00 dead000000000004 head: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000001f5000000 0000000000000000 head: 0000000000000001 ffffea00004b0481 ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 head: 0000000000000002 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected Memory state around the buggy address: ffff888012c11f80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ffff888012c12000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb > ffff888012c12080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb ^ ffff888012c12100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc ffff888012c12180: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc ---truncated---
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
CVSS Information
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Type
N/A
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Title
Linux kernel 安全漏洞
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Description
Linux kernel是美国Linux基金会的开源操作系统Linux所使用的内核。 Linux kernel存在安全漏洞，该漏洞源于忽略xattrs条目，可能导致内存访问越界。
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
CVSS Information
N/A
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Type
N/A
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)

Affected Products

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Linux Linux e50e5129f384ae282adebfb561189cdb19b81cee ~ 6aff941cb0f7d0c897c3698ad2e30672709135e3 -
Linux Linux 4.13 -

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Patches & Fixes for CVE-2025-37738 (9)

Same Patch Batch · Linux · 2025-05-01 · 245 CVEs total

CVE-2025-37750 9.8 CRITICAL smb: client: fix UAF in decryption with multichannel
CVE-2025-37778 9.8 CRITICAL ksmbd: Fix dangling pointer in krb_authenticate
CVE-2022-49770 9.8 CRITICAL ceph: avoid putting the realm twice when decoding snaps fails
CVE-2022-49931 8.8 HIGH IB/hfi1: Correctly move list in sc_disable()
CVE-2025-37776 8.8 HIGH ksmbd: fix use-after-free in smb_break_all_levII_oplock()
CVE-2025-37777 8.8 HIGH ksmbd: fix use-after-free in __smb2_lease_break_noti()
CVE-2025-37790 8.8 HIGH net: mctp: Set SOCK_RCU_FREE
CVE-2022-49910 8.8 HIGH Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix use-after-free caused by l2cap_reassemble_sdu
CVE-2022-49886 8.4 HIGH x86/tdx: Panic on bad configs that #VE on "private" memory access
CVE-2025-23159 8.4 HIGH media: venus: hfi: add a check to handle OOB in sfr region
CVE-2025-37749 8.2 HIGH net: ppp: Add bound checking for skb data on ppp_sync_txmung
CVE-2025-37774 7.8 HIGH slab: ensure slab->obj_exts is clear in a newly allocated slab page
CVE-2025-37789 7.8 HIGH net: openvswitch: fix nested key length validation in the set() action
CVE-2025-37779 7.8 HIGH lib/iov_iter: fix to increase non slab folio refcount
CVE-2022-49920 7.8 HIGH netfilter: nf_tables: netlink notifier might race to release objects
CVE-2022-49919 7.8 HIGH netfilter: nf_tables: release flow rule object from commit path
CVE-2025-37756 7.8 HIGH net: tls: explicitly disallow disconnect
CVE-2025-37761 7.8 HIGH drm/xe: Fix an out-of-bounds shift when invalidating TLB
CVE-2025-37763 7.8 HIGH drm/imagination: take paired job reference
CVE-2022-49804 7.8 HIGH s390: avoid using global register for current_stack_pointer

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