vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2025-38243: kernel: btrfs: fix invalid inode pointer dereferences during log replay

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jul 9, 2025
Added
Jul 10, 2025
Modified
Jul 11, 2025

Description

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

btrfs: fix invalid inode pointer dereferences during log replay

In a few places where we call read_one_inode(), if we get a NULL pointer
we end up jumping into an error path, or fallthrough in case of
__add_inode_ref(), where we then do something like this:

iput(&inode->vfs_inode);

which results in an invalid inode pointer that triggers an invalid memory
access, resulting in a crash.

Fix this by making sure we don't do such dereferences.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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