CVE-2025-38579

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38579
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38579.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-38579
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Published
2025-08-19T17:15:35Z
Modified
2025-09-06T13:01:50Z
Summary
[none]
Details

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

f2fs: fix KMSAN uninit-value in extent_info usage

KMSAN reported a use of uninitialized value in __is_extent_mergeable() and __is_back_mergeable() via the read extent tree path.

The root cause is that get_read_extent_info() only initializes three fields (fofs, blk, len) of struct extent_info, leaving the remaining fields uninitialized. This leads to undefined behavior when those fields are accessed later, especially during extent merging.

Fix it by zero-initializing the extent_info struct before population.

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Affected packages