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CVE-2025-38243

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

btrfs: fix invalid inode pointer dereferences during log replay

In a few places where we call read_one_inode(), if we get a NULL pointer we end up jumping into an error path, or fallthrough in case of __add_inode_ref(), where we then do something like this:

iput(&inode->vfs_inode);

which results in an invalid inode pointer that triggers an invalid memory access, resulting in a crash.

Fix this by making sure we don't do such dereferences.

  • Published: Jul 9, 2025
  • Updated: Nov 20, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2025-38243
  • Severity: Medium
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 5.5
  • AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
linux / linux_kernel 6.15 6.15.5
linux / linux_kernel 6.16-rc1 6.16-rc1.x
linux / linux_kernel 6.16-rc2 6.16-rc2.x
linux / linux_kernel 6.16-rc3 6.16-rc3.x