CVE-2025-38333 – Linux F2FS Inconsistent Segment Status Information Disclosure

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CVE-2025-38333 vulnerability over time.

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  • New CVE Received
    by 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

    Jul. 10, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    f2fs: fix to bail out in get_new_segment()

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    WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 579 at fs/f2fs/segment.c:2832 new_curseg+0x5e8/0x6dc
    pc : new_curseg+0x5e8/0x6dc
    Call trace:
    new_curseg+0x5e8/0x6dc
    f2fs_allocate_data_block+0xa54/0xe28
    do_write_page+0x6c/0x194
    f2fs_do_write_node_page+0x38/0x78
    __write_node_page+0x248/0x6d4
    f2fs_sync_node_pages+0x524/0x72c
    f2fs_write_checkpoint+0x4bc/0x9b0
    __checkpoint_and_complete_reqs+0x80/0x244
    issue_checkpoint_thread+0x8c/0xec
    kthread+0x114/0x1bc
    ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

    get_new_segment() detects inconsistent status in between free_segmap
    and free_secmap, let’s record such error into super block, and bail
    out get_new_segment() instead of continue using the segment.

    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb5eb8a5b222fa5092f60d5555867a05ebc3bdf2
    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca860f507a61c7c3d4dde47b830a5c0d555cf83c
    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f0023d7a2a86999c8e1300e911d92f995a5310a8
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