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Oracle Linux: CVE-2025-38710: ELSA-2025-20662: Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update (IMPORTANT)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:M/C:P/I:P/A:C)
Published
Sep 4, 2025
Added
Oct 16, 2025
Modified
Oct 16, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
gfs2: Validate i_depth for exhash directories
A fuzzer test introduced corruption that ends up with a depth of 0 in
dir_e_read(), causing an undefined shift by 32 at:
index = hash >> (32 - dip->i_depth);
As calculated in an open-coded way in dir_make_exhash(), the minimum
depth for an exhash directory is ilog2(sdp->sd_hash_ptrs) and 0 is
invalid as sdp->sd_hash_ptrs is fixed as sdp->bsize / 16 at mount time.
So we can avoid the undefined behaviour by checking for depth values
lower than the minimum in gfs2_dinode_in(). Values greater than the
maximum are already being checked for there.
Also switch the calculation in dir_make_exhash() to use ilog2() to
clarify how the depth is calculated.
Tested with the syzkaller repro.c and xfstests '-g quick'.

Solution

oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-uek
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