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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-21658" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-01-21T12:18:14.578Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:03:56.225Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:29.455Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21658" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21658.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21658" title: "btrfs: avoid NULL pointer dereference if no valid extent tree" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: avoid NULL pointer dereference if no valid extent tree\n\n[BUG]\nSyzbot reported a crash with the following call trace:\n\n BTRFS info (device loop0): scrub: started on devid 1\n BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000208\n #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode\n #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page\n PGD 106e70067 P4D 106e70067 PUD 107143067 PMD 0\n Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI\n CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 689 Comm: repro Kdump: loaded Tainted: G O 6.13.0-rc4-custom+ #206\n Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS unknown 02/02/2022\n RIP: 0010:find_first_extent_item+0x26/0x1f0 [btrfs]\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n scrub_find_fill_first_stripe+0x13d/0x3b0 [btrfs]\n scrub_simple_mirror+0x175/0x260 [btrfs]\n scrub_stripe+0x5d4/0x6c0 [btrfs]\n scrub_chunk+0xbb/0x170 [btrfs]\n scrub_enumerate_chunks+0x2f4/0x5f0 [btrfs]\n btrfs_scrub_dev+0x240/0x600 [btrfs]\n btrfs_ioctl+0x1dc8/0x2fa0 [btrfs]\n ? do_sys_openat2+0xa5/0xf0\n __x64_sys_ioctl+0x97/0xc0\n do_syscall_64+0x4f/0x120\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\n[CAUSE]\nThe reproducer is using a corrupted image where extent tree root is\ncorrupted, thus forcing to use \"rescue=all,ro\" mount option to mount the\nimage.\n\nThen it triggered a scrub, but since scrub relies on extent tree to find\nwhere the data/metadata extents are, scrub_find_fill_first_stripe()\nrelies on an non-empty extent root.\n\nBut unfortunately scrub_find_fill_first_stripe() doesn't really expect\nan NULL pointer for extent root, it use extent_root to grab fs_info and\ntriggered a NULL pointer dereference.\n\n[FIX]\nAdd an extra check for a valid extent root at the beginning of\nscrub_find_fill_first_stripe().\n\nThe new error path is introduced by 42437a6386ff (\"btrfs: introduce\nmount option rescue=ignorebadroots\"), but that's pretty old, and later\ncommit b979547513ff (\"btrfs: scrub: introduce helper to find and fill\nsector info for a scrub_stripe\") changed how we do scrub.\n\nSo for kernels older than 6.6, the fix will need manual backport." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"42437a6386ffeaaf200731e73d723ea491f3fe7d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"24b85a8b0310e0144da9ab30be42e87e6476638a"},{"version":"42437a6386ffeaaf200731e73d723ea491f3fe7d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"aee5f69f3e6cd82bfefaca1b70b40b6cd8f3f784"},{"version":"42437a6386ffeaaf200731e73d723ea491f3fe7d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6aecd91a5c5b68939cf4169e32bc49f3cd2dd329"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.11"},{"version":"6.6.72","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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