🛡️ AZL-64574 — kernel

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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CVSS Score
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Description

CVE-2025-38163 affecting package kernel for versions less than 6.6.96.1-1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

f2fs: fix to do sanity check on sbi->total_valid_block_count

syzbot reported a f2fs bug as below:

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kernel BUG at fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:2521!

RIP: 0010:dec_valid_block_count+0x3b2/0x3c0 fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:2521

Call Trace:

f2fs_truncate_data_blocks_range+0xc8c/0x11a0 fs/f2fs/file.c:695

truncate_dnode+0x417/0x740 fs/f2fs/node.c:973

truncate_nodes+0x3ec/0xf50 fs/f2fs/node.c:1014

f2fs_truncate_inode_blocks+0x8e3/0x1370 fs/f2fs/node.c:1197

f2fs_do_truncate_blocks+0x840/0x12b0 fs/f2fs/file.c:810

f2fs_truncate_blocks+0x10d/0x300 fs/f2fs/file.c:838

f2fs_truncate+0x417/0x720 fs/f2fs/file.c:888

f2fs_setattr+0xc4f/0x12f0 fs/f2fs/file.c:1112

notify_change+0xbca/0xe90 fs/attr.c:552

do_truncate+0x222/0x310 fs/open.c:65

handle_truncate fs/namei.c:3466 [inline]

do_open fs/namei.c:3849 [inline]

path_openat+0x2e4f/0x35d0 fs/namei.c:4004

do_filp_open+0x284/0x4e0 fs/namei.c:4031

do_sys_openat2+0x12b/0x1d0 fs/open.c:1429

do_sys_open fs/open.c:1444 [inline]

__do_sys_creat fs/open.c:1522 [inline]

__se_sys_creat fs/open.c:1516 [inline]

__x64_sys_creat+0x124/0x170 fs/open.c:1516

do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]

do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94

The reason is: in fuzzed image, sbi->total_valid_block_count is

inconsistent w/ mapped blocks indexed by inode, so, we should

not trigger panic for such case, instead, let's print log and

set fsck flag.

Affected software

AZL-64574 is recorded against 1 package.

  • kernel (fixed in 6.6.96.1-1)

Timeline and source

Published on 3 July 2025 and last revised on 21 April 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-07-03
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-04-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kernel — 6.6.96.1-1

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