Tracker / CVE-2025-38579
CVE-2025-38579
High 7.8
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix KMSAN uninit-value in extent_info usage KMSAN reported a use of uninitialized value in `__is_extent_mergeable()` and `__is_back_mergeable()` via the read extent tree path. The root cause is that `get_read_extent_info()` only initializes three fields (`fofs`, `blk`, `len`) of `struct extent_info`, leaving the remaining fields uninitialized. This leads to undefined behavior when those fields are accessed later, especially during extent merging. Fix it by zero-initializing the `extent_info` struct before population.
Affected products and versions
| debian | debian_linux |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel · 5.15 → 5.15.190 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.148 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.13 → 6.15.10 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.16 → 6.16.1 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.102 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.12.42 |
Analysis
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