hfs: fix general protection fault in hfs_find_init() (CVE-2025-38716)

Summary

hfs: fix general protection fault in hfs_find_init()

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

hfs: fix general protection fault in hfs_find_init()

The hfs_find_init() method can trigger the crash
if tree pointer is NULL:

[ 45.746290][ T9787] Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000008: 0000 [#1] SMP KAI
[ 45.747287][ T9787] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000040-0x0000000000000047]
[ 45.748716][ T9787] CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 9787 Comm: repro Not tainted 6.16.0-rc3 #10 PREEMPT(full)
[ 45.750250][ T9787] Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
[ 45.751983][ T9787] RIP: 0010:hfs_find_init+0x86/0x230
[ 45.752834][ T9787] Code: c1 ea 03 80 3c 02 00 0f 85 9a 01 00 00 4c 8d 6b 40 48 c7 45 18 00 00 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc
[ 45.755574][ T9787] RSP: 0018:ffffc90015157668 EFLAGS: 00010202
[ 45.756432][ T9787] RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffffff819a4d09
[ 45.757457][ T9787] RDX: 0000000000000008 RSI: ffffffff819acd3a RDI: ffffc900151576e8
[ 45.758282][ T9787] RBP: ffffc900151576d0 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 45.758943][ T9787] R10: 0000000080000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000004
[ 45.759619][ T9787] R13: 0000000000000040 R14: ffff88802c50814a R15: 0000000000000000
[ 45.760293][ T9787] FS: 00007ffb72734540(0000) GS:ffff8880cec64000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 45.761050][ T9787] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 00000…

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD OSV

Affected packages

Linux Kernel

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"3.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.103"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.12.43"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.13.0"},{"fixed":"6.15.11"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.16.2"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-38716 linux-lts
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38716 linux
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38716 linux

Summary

Original description

Affected packages

Fix status by distribution

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