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CVE-2025-38701

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: do not BUG when INLINE_DATA_FL lacks system.data xattr A syzbot fuzzed image triggere…

Impact

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: do not BUG when INLINE_DATA_FL lacks system.data xattr A syzbot fuzzed image triggered a BUG_ON in ext4_update_inline_data() when an inode had the INLINE_DATA_FL flag set but was missing the system.data extended attribute. Since this can happen due to a maiciouly fuzzed file system, we shouldn't BUG, but rather, report it as a corrupted file system. Add similar replacements of BUG_ON with EXT4_ERROR_INODE() ii ext4_create_inline_data() and ext4_inline_data_truncate().

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
LinuxLinux Kernel
from 3.8 before 5.4.297
from 5.5 before 5.10.241
from 5.11 before 5.15.190
from 5.16 before 6.1.149
from 6.2 before 6.6.103
from 6.7 before 6.12.43
DebianDebian Linux
Version 11.0

Weakness classification

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