Vulnerability in Linux kernel (CVE-2025-38347)
Summary
Vulnerability in Linux kernel (CVE-2025-38347). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: fix to do sanity check on ino and xnid
syzbot reported a f2fs bug as below:
INFO: task syz-executor140:5308 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
Not tainted 6.14.0-rc7-syzkaller-00069-g81e4f8d68c66 #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:syz-executor140 state:D stack:24016 pid:5308 tgid:5308 ppid:5306 task_flags:0x400140 flags:0x00000006
Call Trace:
context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5378 [inline]
__schedule+0x190e/0x4c90 kernel/sched/core.c:6765
__schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:6842 [inline]
schedule+0x14b/0x320 kernel/sched/core.c:6857
io_schedule+0x8d/0x110 kernel/sched/core.c:7690
folio_wait_bit_common+0x839/0xee0 mm/filemap.c:1317
__folio_lock mm/filemap.c:1664 [inline]
folio_lock include/linux/pagemap.h:1163 [inline]
__filemap_get_folio+0x147/0xb40 mm/filemap.c:1917
pagecache_get_page+0x2c/0x130 mm/folio-compat.c:87
find_get_page_flags include/linux/pagemap.h:842 [inline]
f2fs_grab_cache_page+0x2b/0x320 fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:2776
__get_node_page+0x131/0x11b0 fs/f2fs/node.c:1463
read_xattr_block+0xfb/0x190 fs/f2fs/xattr.c:306
lookup_all_xattrs fs/f2fs/xattr.c:355 [inline]
f2fs_getxattr+0x676/0xf70 fs/f2fs/xattr.c:533
__f2fs_get_acl+0x52/0x870 fs/f2fs/acl.c:179
f2fs_acl_create fs/f2fs/acl.c:375 [inline]
f2fs_init_acl+0xd7/0x9b0 fs/f2fs/acl.c:418
f2fs_init_inode_metadata+0xa0f/0x1050 fs/f2fs/dir.c:539
f2fs_add_inline_entry+0x448/…
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD GitHub Advisory
Auto-generated summary
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-38347 has been found in Linux kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 5.5/10.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Linux kernel CVE-2025-38347" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2025-38347 (Linux kernel) — CVSS v3 5.5
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in Linux kernel.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Linux kernel.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 5.5/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Audit SBOM/dependencies to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
Audit SBOM/dependencies for affected components.資産台帳・SBOM・依存マニフェストで Linux kernel を使っているサービスとバージョンを洗い出す。
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2Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-38347 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.1.151-r0
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38347 linux Fixed in: 5.10.244-1
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38347 linux
References
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- advisory github.com
- package git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web lists.debian.org
- web lists.debian.org
- web cert-portal.siemens.com
- web github.com