CVE-2025-38709

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Denial of Service via Block Size Mismatch in Loop Device

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: loop: Avoid updating block size under exclusive owner Syzbot came up with a reproducer where a loop device block size is changed underneath a mounted filesystem. This causes a mismatch between the block device block size and the block size stored in the superblock causing confusion in various places such as fs/buffer.c. The particular issue triggered by syzbot was a warning in __getblk_slow() due to requested buffer size not matching block device block size. Fix the problem by getting exclusive hold of the loop device to change its block size. This fails if somebody (such as filesystem) has already an exclusive ownership of the block device and thus prevents modifying the loop device under some exclusive owner which doesn't expect it.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0014
EPSS Percentile 3.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (17)
linux/Kernel 4.14.0 - 6.6.109linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.15.11linux
linux/Kernel 6.16.0 - 6.16.2linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.43linux
Linux/Linux < 4.14
Linux/Linux 4.14
Linux/Linux 6.12.43 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.15.11 - 6.15.*
Linux/Linux 6.16.2 - 6.16.*
Linux/Linux 6.17
... and 7 more
Published Sep 04, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026