CVE-2025-38710 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2025-38710

gfs2: Validate i_depth for exhash directories

Vulnerability Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gfs2: Validate i_depth for exhash directories A fuzzer test introduced corruption that ends up with a depth of 0 in dir_e_read(), causing an undefined shift by 32 at: index = hash >> (32 - dip->i_depth); As calculated in an open-coded way in dir_make_exhash(), the minimum depth for an exhash directory is ilog2(sdp->sd_hash_ptrs) and 0 is invalid as sdp->sd_hash_ptrs is fixed as sdp->bsize / 16 at mount time. So we can avoid the undefined behaviour by checking for depth values lower than the minimum in gfs2_dinode_in(). Values greater than the maximum are already being checked for there. Also switch the calculation in dir_make_exhash() to use ilog2() to clarify how the depth is calculated. Tested with the syzkaller repro.c and xfstests '-g quick'.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

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

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
9a0045088d888c9c539c8c626a366cb52c0fbdab, 2.6.26, 0, 5.10.258, 5.15.209, 6.1.175, 6.6.134, 6.12.43, 6.15.11, 6.16.2, 6.17

Timeline

Official Publish: September 4th, 2025
Last Modified: June 1st, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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Weaknesses (CWE)

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