# CVE-2025-22123: f2fs: fix to avoid accessing uninitialized curseg

> A local attacker can trigger a kernel panic in the f2fs filesystem by accessing an uninitialized segment structure, causing a denial of service.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 16 Apr 2025
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2025-22123, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-22123, GHSA-fq4p-236v-8g34, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-22123

## What is CVE-2025-22123?

CVE-2025-22123 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 16 Apr 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

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

f2fs: fix to avoid accessing uninitialized curseg

syzbot reports a f2fs bug as below:

F2FS-fs (loop3): Stopped filesystem due to reason: 7
kworker/u8:7: attempt to access beyond end of device
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffed1604ea3dfa
RIP: 0010:get_ckpt_valid_blocks fs/f2fs/segment.h:361 [inline]
RIP: 0010:has_curseg_enough_space fs/f2fs/segment.h:570 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__get_secs_required fs/f2fs/segment.h:620 [inline]
RIP: 0010:has_not_enough_free_secs fs/f2fs/segment.h:633 [inline]
RIP: 0010:has_enough_free_secs+0x575/0x1660 fs/f2fs/segment.h:649
 <TASK>
 f2fs_is_checkpoint_ready fs/f2fs/segment.h:671 [inline]
 f2fs_write_inode+0x425/0x540 fs/f2fs/inode.c:791
 write_inode fs/fs-writeback.c:1525 [inline]
 __writeback_single_inode+0x708/0x10d0 fs/fs-writeback.c:1745
 writeback_sb_inodes+0x820/0x1360 fs/fs-writeback.c:1976
 wb_writeback+0x413/0xb80 fs/fs-writeback.c:2156
 wb_do_writeback fs/fs-writeback.c:2303 [inline]
 wb_workfn+0x410/0x1080 fs/fs-writeback.c:2343
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3236 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa66/0x1840 kernel/workqueue.c:3317
 worker_thread+0x870/0xd30 kernel/workqueue.c:3398
 kthread+0x7a9/0x920 kernel/kthread.c:464
 ret_from_fork+0x4b/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244

Commit 8b10d3653735 ("f2fs: introduce FAULT_NO_SEGMENT") allows to trigger
no free segment fault in allocator, then it will update curseg->segno to
NULL_SEGNO, though, CP_ERROR_FLAG has been set, f2fs_write_inode() missed
to check the flag, and access invalid curseg->segno directly in below call
path, then resulting in panic:

- f2fs_write_inode
 - f2fs_is_checkpoint_ready
  - has_enough_free_secs
   - has_not_enough_free_secs
    - __get_secs_required
     - has_curseg_enough_space
      - get_ckpt_valid_blocks
      : access invalid curseg->segno

To avoid this issue, let's:
- check CP_ERROR_FLAG flag in prior to f2fs_is_checkpoint_ready() in
f2fs_write_inode().
- in has_curseg_enough_space(), save curseg->segno into a temp variable,
and verify its validation before use.

Weakness: CWE-908 (Use of Uninitialized Resource)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-22123?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-22123?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2025-22123 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-22123 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel

- [CVE-2026-53266](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53266/): Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2013-6282](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-6282/): Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2022-0185](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0185/): Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2013-2094](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-2094/): Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2026-53362](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53362/): Linux Kernel Unspecified (high 7.8, exploited in the wild)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-22123 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-22123 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 16 Apr 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-22123 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-22123/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-22123/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-22123
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22123
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-22123

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