Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

jfs: reject on-disk inodes of an unsupported type

Syzbot has reported the following BUG:

kernel BUG at fs/inode.c:668!
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI
CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 139 Comm: jfsCommit Not tainted 6.12.0-rc4-syzkaller-00085-g4e46774408d9 #0
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-3.fc41 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:clear_inode+0x168/0x190
Code: 4c 89 f7 e8 ba fe e5 ff e9 61 ff ff ff 44 89 f1 80 e1 07 80 c1 03 38 c1 7c c1 4c 89 f7 e8 90 ff e5 ff eb b7
0b e8 01 5d 7f ff 90 0f 0b e8 f9 5c 7f ff 90 0f 0b e8 f1 5c 7f
RSP: 0018:ffffc900027dfae8 EFLAGS: 00010093
RAX: ffffffff82157a87 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: ffff888104d4b980
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc900027dfc90 R08: ffffffff82157977 R09: fffff520004fbf38
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff520004fbf38 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffff88811315bc00 R14: ffff88811315bda8 R15: ffff88811315bb80
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888135f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00005565222e0578 CR3: 0000000026ef0000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
Call Trace:

? __die_body+0x5f/0xb0
? die+0x9e/0xc0
? do_trap+0x15a/0x3a0
? clear_inode+0x168/0x190
? do_error_trap+0x1dc/0x2c0
? clear_inode+0x168/0x190
? __pfx_do_error_trap+0x10/0x10
? report_bug+0x3cd/0x500
? handle_invalid_op+0x34/0x40
? clear_inode+0x168/0x190
? exc_invalid_o...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-37925

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.02% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 3.27% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-18 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-37925
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8987891c4653874d5e3f5d11f063912f4e0b58eb
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c3f9a70d2d4dd6c640afe294b05c6a0a45434d9

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