{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-38164 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-38164 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 3 Jul 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-2025-38164 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-38164 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 3 Jul 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-2025-38164 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. 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-2025-38164/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38164/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-38164","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38164/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-38164","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2025-38164","DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38164","GHSA-6mfc-3rhj-8xmq","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-38164","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38164"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel filesystem","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A local attacker can trigger a filesystem inconsistency in the Linux kernel's F2FS driver, causing the filesystem to stop and resulting in a denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":7.1,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nf2fs: zone: fix to avoid inconsistence in between SIT and SSA\n\nw/ below testcase, it will cause inconsistence in between SIT and SSA.\n\ncreate_null_blk 512 2 1024 1024\nmkfs.f2fs -m /dev/nullb0\nmount /dev/nullb0 /mnt/f2fs/\ntouch /mnt/f2fs/file\nf2fs_io pinfile set /mnt/f2fs/file\nfallocate -l 4GiB /mnt/f2fs/file\n\nF2FS-fs (nullb0): Inconsistent segment (0) type [1, 0] in SSA and SIT\nCPU: 5 UID: 0 PID: 2398 Comm: fallocate Tainted: G           O       6.13.0-rc1 #84\nTainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE\nHardware name: innotek GmbH VirtualBox/VirtualBox, BIOS VirtualBox 12/01/2006\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n dump_stack_lvl+0xb3/0xd0\n dump_stack+0x14/0x20\n f2fs_handle_critical_error+0x18c/0x220 [f2fs]\n f2fs_stop_checkpoint+0x38/0x50 [f2fs]\n do_garbage_collect+0x674/0x6e0 [f2fs]\n f2fs_gc_range+0x12b/0x230 [f2fs]\n f2fs_allocate_pinning_section+0x5c/0x150 [f2fs]\n f2fs_expand_inode_data+0x1cc/0x3c0 [f2fs]\n f2fs_fallocate+0x3c3/0x410 [f2fs]\n vfs_fallocate+0x15f/0x4b0\n __x64_sys_fallocate+0x4a/0x80\n x64_sys_call+0x15e8/0x1b80\n do_syscall_64+0x68/0x130\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x67/0x6f\nRIP: 0033:0x7f9dba5197ca\nF2FS-fs (nullb0): Stopped filesystem due to reason: 4\n\nThe reason is f2fs_gc_range() may try to migrate block in curseg, however,\nits SSA block is not uptodate due to the last summary block data is still\nin cache of curseg.\n\nIn this patch, we add a condition in f2fs_gc_range() to check whether\nsection is opened or not, and skip block migration for opened section.","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":"f2fs: zone: fix to avoid inconsistence in between SIT and SSA","id":"CVE-2025-38164","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":4,"next":{"headline":"bpf, sockmap: Fix panic when calling skb_linearize","id":"CVE-2025-38165"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"f2fs: fix to do sanity check on sbi-\u003etotal_valid_block_count","id":"CVE-2025-38163"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-07-03","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"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":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-08-05","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A local attacker can trigger a filesystem inconsistency in the Linux kernel's F2FS driver, causing the filesystem to stop and resulting in a denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38164/"}