{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 2 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-38194 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-38194 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 4 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-2025-38194 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-38194 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 4 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-2025-38194 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-2025-38194/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38194/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-38194","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38194/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-38194","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2025-38194","DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38194","GHSA-37fc-3j87-m624","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2025-38194","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2025-38194","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2025-38194","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-38194","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38194"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A missing check in the Linux kernel JFFS2 filesystem allows a local attacker to trigger a kernel bug and cause a denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"debian_linux","vendor":"debian"},{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\njffs2: check that raw node were preallocated before writing summary\n\nSyzkaller detected a kernel bug in jffs2_link_node_ref, caused by fault\ninjection in jffs2_prealloc_raw_node_refs. jffs2_sum_write_sumnode doesn't\ncheck return value of jffs2_prealloc_raw_node_refs and simply lets any\nerror propagate into jffs2_sum_write_data, which eventually calls\njffs2_link_node_ref in order to link the summary to an expectedly allocated\nnode.\n\nkernel BUG at fs/jffs2/nodelist.c:592!\ninvalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI\nCPU: 1 PID: 31277 Comm: syz-executor.7 Not tainted 6.1.128-syzkaller-00139-ge10f83ca10a1 #0\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.12.0-1 04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:jffs2_link_node_ref+0x570/0x690 fs/jffs2/nodelist.c:592\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n jffs2_sum_write_data fs/jffs2/summary.c:841 [inline]\n jffs2_sum_write_sumnode+0xd1a/0x1da0 fs/jffs2/summary.c:874\n jffs2_do_reserve_space+0xa18/0xd60 fs/jffs2/nodemgmt.c:388\n jffs2_reserve_space+0x55f/0xaa0 fs/jffs2/nodemgmt.c:197\n jffs2_write_inode_range+0x246/0xb50 fs/jffs2/write.c:362\n jffs2_write_end+0x726/0x15d0 fs/jffs2/file.c:301\n generic_perform_write+0x314/0x5d0 mm/filemap.c:3856\n __generic_file_write_iter+0x2ae/0x4d0 mm/filemap.c:3973\n generic_file_write_iter+0xe3/0x350 mm/filemap.c:4005\n call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2265 [inline]\n do_iter_readv_writev+0x20f/0x3c0 fs/read_write.c:735\n do_iter_write+0x186/0x710 fs/read_write.c:861\n vfs_iter_write+0x70/0xa0 fs/read_write.c:902\n iter_file_splice_write+0x73b/0xc90 fs/splice.c:685\n do_splice_from fs/splice.c:763 [inline]\n direct_splice_actor+0x10c/0x170 fs/splice.c:950\n splice_direct_to_actor+0x337/0xa10 fs/splice.c:896\n do_splice_direct+0x1a9/0x280 fs/splice.c:1002\n do_sendfile+0xb13/0x12c0 fs/read_write.c:1255\n __do_sys_sendfile64 fs/read_write.c:1323 [inline]\n __se_sys_sendfile64 fs/read_write.c:1309 [inline]\n __x64_sys_sendfile64+0x1cf/0x210 fs/read_write.c:1309\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8\n\nFix this issue by checking return value of jffs2_prealloc_raw_node_refs\nbefore calling jffs2_sum_write_data.\n\nFound by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.","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":"jffs2: check that raw node were preallocated before writing summary","id":"CVE-2025-38194","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"debian:debian_linux","products":["debian:debian_linux","linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":8,"next":{"headline":"LoongArch: Fix panic caused by NULL-PMD in huge_pte_offset()","id":"CVE-2025-38195"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"net_sched: sch_sfq: reject invalid perturb period","id":"CVE-2025-38193"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-07-04","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":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A missing check in the Linux kernel JFFS2 filesystem allows a local attacker to trigger a kernel bug and cause a denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38194/"}