CVE-2025-38243

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 6.15-6.15.5 - NULL Pointer Dereference in Btrfs Log Replay

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix invalid inode pointer dereferences during log replay In a few places where we call read_one_inode(), if we get a NULL pointer we end up jumping into an error path, or fallthrough in case of __add_inode_ref(), where we then do something like this: iput(&inode->vfs_inode); which results in an invalid inode pointer that triggers an invalid memory access, resulting in a crash. Fix this by making sure we don't do such dereferences.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0014
EPSS Percentile 3.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (10)
linux/Kernel 6.15.0 - 6.15.5linux
Linux/Linux < 6.15
Linux/Linux 0502d1127436a69b8c2e7cf309ae0ebff3332668 - 401d098f92ea69d8a75f8b845daf343e511681ba
Linux/Linux 6.15
Linux/Linux 6.15.5 - 6.15.*
Linux/Linux 6.16
Linux/Linux b4c50cbb01a1b6901d2b94469636dd80fa93de81 - 2dcf838cf5c2f0f4501edaa1680fcad03618d760
Linux/Linux b4c50cbb01a1b6901d2b94469636dd80fa93de81 - ba8386d662cc51cc5382688bbf7a152b0b0b27cf
linux/linux_kernel 6.16 rc1 (3 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 6.15 - 6.15.5
Published Jul 09, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026