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DEBIAN-CVE-2025-37925

MediumCVSS 5.5 / 10
Published Apr 18, 2025·Last modified Jun 15, 2026
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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: jfs: reject on-disk inodes of an unsupported type Syzbot has reported the following BUG: kernel BUG at fs/inode.c:668! Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 139 Comm: jfsCommit Not tainted 6.12.0-rc4-syzkaller-00085-g4e46774408d9 #0 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-3.fc41 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:clear_inode+0x168/0x190 Code: 4c 89 f7 e8 ba fe e5 ff e9 61 ff ff ff 44 89 f1 80 e1 07 80 c1 03 38 c1 7c c1 4c 89 f7 e8 90 ff e5 ff eb b7 0b e8 01 5d 7f ff 90 0f 0b e8 f9 5c 7f ff 90 0f 0b e8 f1 5c 7f RSP: 0018:ffffc900027dfae8 EFLAGS: 00010093 RAX: ffffffff82157a87 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: ffff888104d4b980 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: ffffc900027dfc90 R08: ffffffff82157977 R09: fffff520004fbf38 R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff520004fbf38 R12: dffffc0000000000 R13: ffff88811315bc00 R14: ffff88811315bda8 R15: ffff88811315bb80 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888135f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00005565222e0578 CR3: 0000000026ef0000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 Call Trace: <TASK> ? __die_body+0x5f/0xb0 ? die+0x9e/0xc0 ? do_trap+0x15a/0x3a0 ? clear_inode+0x168/0x190 ? do_error_trap+0x1dc/0x2c0 ? clear_inode+0x168/0x190 ? __pfx_do_error_trap+0x10/0x10 ? report_bug+0x3cd/0x500 ? handle_invalid_op+0x34/0x40 ? clear_inode+0x168/0x190 ? exc_invalid_op+0x38/0x50 ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20 ? clear_inode+0x57/0x190 ? clear_inode+0x167/0x190 ? clear_inode+0x168/0x190 ? clear_inode+0x167/0x190 jfs_evict_inode+0xb5/0x440 ? __pfx_jfs_evict_inode+0x10/0x10 evict+0x4ea/0x9b0 ? __pfx_evict+0x10/0x10 ? iput+0x713/0xa50 txUpdateMap+0x931/0xb10 ? __pfx_txUpdateMap+0x10/0x10 jfs_lazycommit+0x49a/0xb80 ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x8f/0x140 ? lockdep_hardirqs_on+0x99/0x150 ? __pfx_jfs_lazycommit+0x10/0x10 ? __pfx_default_wake_function+0x10/0x10 ? __kthread_parkme+0x169/0x1d0 ? __pfx_jfs_lazycommit+0x10/0x10 kthread+0x2f2/0x390 ? __pfx_jfs_lazycommit+0x10/0x10 ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 ret_from_fork+0x4d/0x80 ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 </TASK> This happens when 'clear_inode()' makes an attempt to finalize an underlying JFS inode of unknown type. According to JFS layout description from https://jfs.sourceforge.net/project/pub/jfslayout.pdf, inode types from 5 to 15 are reserved for future extensions and should not be encountered on a valid filesystem. So add an extra check for valid inode type in 'copy_from_dinode()'.

Risk Scores
Base Score
5.5

The vulnerability requires local access to the device to be exploited. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker needs basic access or low-level privileges. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability. The impact is confined to the system where the vulnerability exists. There is a high impact on the availability of the system.

Threat Intelligence
5.1

Exploitation attempts have been detected. Elevated vigilance and prompt remediation are advised.

EPSS
N/A

Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Exploit
Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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