{"id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2025-37738","details":"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:  \u003cTASK\u003e  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  \u003c/TASK\u003e  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 \u003e 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---","modified":"2026-09-01T20:05:46.271905260Z","published":"2025-05-01T13:15:52.383Z","upstream":["CVE-2025-37738"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-37738"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"linux","ecosystem":"Debian:12","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=bookworm"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6.1.135-1"}]}],"versions":["6.1.106-1","6.1.106-2","6.1.106-3","6.1.112-1","6.1.115-1","6.1.119-1","6.1.123-1","6.1.124-1","6.1.128-1","6.1.129-1","6.1.133-1","6.1.27-1","6.1.37-1","6.1.38-1","6.1.38-2","6.1.38-2~bpo11+1","6.1.38-3","6.1.38-4","6.1.38-4~bpo11+1","6.1.52-1","6.1.55-1","6.1.55-1~bpo11+1","6.1.64-1","6.1.66-1","6.1.67-1","6.1.69-1","6.1.69-1~bpo11+1","6.1.76-1","6.1.76-1~bpo11+1","6.1.82-1","6.1.85-1","6.1.90-1","6.1.90-1~bpo11+1","6.1.94-1","6.1.94-1~bpo11+1","6.1.98-1","6.1.99-1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-37738.json"}},{"package":{"name":"linux","ecosystem":"Debian:13","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=trixie"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6.12.25-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-37738.json"}},{"package":{"name":"linux","ecosystem":"Debian:14","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=forky"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6.12.25-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-37738.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}