CVE-2025-38243 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2025-38243

btrfs: fix invalid inode pointer dereferences during log replay

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
0502d1127436a69b8c2e7cf309ae0ebff3332668, b4c50cbb01a1b6901d2b94469636dd80fa93de81, 6.15, 0, 6.15.5, 6.16

Timeline

Official Publish: July 9th, 2025
Last Modified: May 11th, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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