CVE-2025-38710

high

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'.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5f46951e62377b6e406fadc18bc3c5bdf1632a7

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9680c58675b82348ab84d387e4fa727f7587e1a0

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/557c024ca7250bb65ae60f16c02074106c2f197b

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/53a0249d68a210c16e961b83adfa82f94ee0a53d

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-09-04

Updated: 2025-09-05

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00018