{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 2 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-37738 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-37738 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 1 May 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-37738 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-37738 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 1 May 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-37738 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Debian Debian Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. 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.\n2. 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.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-37738/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-37738/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-37738","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-37738/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-37738","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2025-37738","DEBIAN-CVE-2025-37738","GHSA-jw72-qv66-6947","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2025-37738","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2025-37738","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-37738","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-37738"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service","code_execution"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel ext4","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel ext4 filesystem allows attackers to cause a denial of service or potentially execute code via crafted xattr entries.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"use_after_free"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"debian_linux","vendor":"debian"},{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-416","name":"Use After Free"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: ignore xattrs past end\n\nOnce inside 'ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all' we should\nignore xattrs entries past the 'end' entry.\n\nThis fixes the following KASAN reported issue:\n\n==================================================================\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all+0xb8c/0xe90\nRead of size 4 at addr ffff888012c120c4 by task repro/2065\n\nCPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 2065 Comm: repro Not tainted 6.13.0-rc2+ #11\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n dump_stack_lvl+0x1fd/0x300\n ? tcp_gro_dev_warn+0x260/0x260\n ? _printk+0xc0/0x100\n ? read_lock_is_recursive+0x10/0x10\n ? irq_work_queue+0x72/0xf0\n ? __virt_addr_valid+0x17b/0x4b0\n print_address_description+0x78/0x390\n print_report+0x107/0x1f0\n ? __virt_addr_valid+0x17b/0x4b0\n ? __virt_addr_valid+0x3ff/0x4b0\n ? __phys_addr+0xb5/0x160\n ? ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all+0xb8c/0xe90\n kasan_report+0xcc/0x100\n ? ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all+0xb8c/0xe90\n ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all+0xb8c/0xe90\n ? ext4_xattr_delete_inode+0xd30/0xd30\n ? __ext4_journal_ensure_credits+0x5f0/0x5f0\n ? __ext4_journal_ensure_credits+0x2b/0x5f0\n ? inode_update_timestamps+0x410/0x410\n ext4_xattr_delete_inode+0xb64/0xd30\n ? ext4_truncate+0xb70/0xdc0\n ? ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea+0x1d20/0x1d20\n ? __ext4_mark_inode_dirty+0x670/0x670\n ? ext4_journal_check_start+0x16f/0x240\n ? ext4_inode_is_fast_symlink+0x2f2/0x3a0\n ext4_evict_inode+0xc8c/0xff0\n ? ext4_inode_is_fast_symlink+0x3a0/0x3a0\n ? do_raw_spin_unlock+0x53/0x8a0\n ? ext4_inode_is_fast_symlink+0x3a0/0x3a0\n evict+0x4ac/0x950\n ? proc_nr_inodes+0x310/0x310\n ? trace_ext4_drop_inode+0xa2/0x220\n ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x1a/0x30\n ? iput+0x4cb/0x7e0\n do_unlinkat+0x495/0x7c0\n ? try_break_deleg+0x120/0x120\n ? 0xffffffff81000000\n ? __check_object_size+0x15a/0x210\n ? strncpy_from_user+0x13e/0x250\n ? getname_flags+0x1dc/0x530\n __x64_sys_unlinkat+0xc8/0xf0\n do_syscall_64+0x65/0x110\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x67/0x6f\nRIP: 0033:0x434ffd\nCode: 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 00 f3 0f 1e fa 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 8\nRSP: 002b:00007ffc50fa7b28 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000107\nRAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffc50fa7e18 RCX: 0000000000434ffd\nRDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000020000240 RDI: 0000000000000005\nRBP: 00007ffc50fa7be0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000\nR10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001\nR13: 00007ffc50fa7e08 R14: 00000000004bbf30 R15: 0000000000000001\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nThe buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888012c12000\n which belongs to the cache filp of size 360\nThe buggy address is located 196 bytes inside of\n freed 360-byte region [ffff888012c12000, ffff888012c12168)\n\nThe buggy address belongs to the physical page:\npage: refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x12c12\nhead: order:1 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0\nflags: 0x40(head|node=0|zone=0)\npage_type: f5(slab)\nraw: 0000000000000040 ffff888000ad7640 ffffea0000497a00 dead000000000004\nraw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000001f5000000 0000000000000000\nhead: 0000000000000040 ffff888000ad7640 ffffea0000497a00 dead000000000004\nhead: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000001f5000000 0000000000000000\nhead: 0000000000000001 ffffea00004b0481 ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000\nhead: 0000000000000002 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000\npage dumped because: kasan: bad access detected\n\nMemory state around the buggy address:\n ffff888012c11f80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00\n ffff888012c12000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb\n\u003e ffff888012c12080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb\n                                           ^\n ffff888012c12100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc\n ffff888012c12180: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc\n---truncated---","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"ext4: ignore xattrs past end","id":"CVE-2025-37738","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"debian:debian_linux","products":["debian:debian_linux","linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"use_after_free","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":9,"next":{"headline":"f2fs: fix to avoid out-of-bounds access in f2fs_truncate_inode_blocks()","id":"CVE-2025-37739"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Elastic Cloud Enterprise Improper Authorization","id":"CVE-2025-37736"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-05-01","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"ProFTPD Improper Access Control","id":"CVE-2015-3306","kev_date_added":"2026-10-08","published":"2015-05-18"},{"cvss_score":9.9,"headline":"RoundCube Webmail Deserialization of Untrusted Data","id":"CVE-2025-49113","kev_date_added":"2026-02-20","published":"2025-06-02"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"GNU InetUtils Argument Injection","id":"CVE-2026-24061","kev_date_added":"2026-01-26","published":"2026-01-21"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions","id":"CVE-2025-39682","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-09-05"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free","id":"CVE-2024-9680","kev_date_added":"2024-10-15","published":"2024-10-09"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"RARLAB UnRAR Directory Traversal","id":"CVE-2022-30333","kev_date_added":"2022-08-09","published":"2022-05-09"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Roundcube Webmail SQL Injection","id":"CVE-2021-44026","kev_date_added":"2023-06-22","published":"2021-11-19"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-15","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel ext4 filesystem allows attackers to cause a denial of service or potentially execute code via crafted xattr entries.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-37738/"}