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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-22121" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-04-16T14:13:05.894Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:51:57.982Z" 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-2025-22121" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-22121.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-22121" title: "ext4: fix out-of-bound read in ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: fix out-of-bound read in ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all()\n\nThere's issue as follows:\nBUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all+0x6ff/0x790\nRead of size 4 at addr ffff88807b003000 by task syz-executor.0/15172\n\nCPU: 3 PID: 15172 Comm: syz-executor.0\nCall Trace:\n __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:82 [inline]\n dump_stack+0xbe/0xfd lib/dump_stack.c:123\n print_address_description.constprop.0+0x1e/0x280 mm/kasan/report.c:400\n __kasan_report.cold+0x6c/0x84 mm/kasan/report.c:560\n kasan_report+0x3a/0x50 mm/kasan/report.c:585\n ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all+0x6ff/0x790 fs/ext4/xattr.c:1137\n ext4_xattr_delete_inode+0x4c7/0xda0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:2896\n ext4_evict_inode+0xb3b/0x1670 fs/ext4/inode.c:323\n evict+0x39f/0x880 fs/inode.c:622\n iput_final fs/inode.c:1746 [inline]\n iput fs/inode.c:1772 [inline]\n iput+0x525/0x6c0 fs/inode.c:1758\n ext4_orphan_cleanup fs/ext4/super.c:3298 [inline]\n ext4_fill_super+0x8c57/0xba40 fs/ext4/super.c:5300\n mount_bdev+0x355/0x410 fs/super.c:1446\n legacy_get_tree+0xfe/0x220 fs/fs_context.c:611\n vfs_get_tree+0x8d/0x2f0 fs/super.c:1576\n do_new_mount fs/namespace.c:2983 [inline]\n path_mount+0x119a/0x1ad0 fs/namespace.c:3316\n do_mount+0xfc/0x110 fs/namespace.c:3329\n __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3540 [inline]\n __se_sys_mount+0x219/0x2e0 fs/namespace.c:3514\n do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x67/0xd1\n\nMemory state around the buggy address:\n ffff88807b002f00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00\n ffff88807b002f80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00\n\u003effff88807b003000: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff\n ^\n ffff88807b003080: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff\n ffff88807b003100: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff\n\nAbove issue happens as ext4_xattr_delete_inode() isn't check xattr\nis valid if xattr is in inode.\nTo solve above issue call xattr_check_inode() check if xattr if valid\nin inode. In fact, we can directly verify in ext4_iget_extra_inode(),\nso that there is no divergent verification." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e50e5129f384ae282adebfb561189cdb19b81cee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"27202452b0bc942fdc3db72a44c4dcdab96d5b56"},{"version":"e50e5129f384ae282adebfb561189cdb19b81cee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b374e9ecc92aaa7fb2ab221ee3ff5451118ab566"},{"version":"e50e5129f384ae282adebfb561189cdb19b81cee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c000a8a9b5343a5ef867df173c6349672dacbd0f"},{"version":"e50e5129f384ae282adebfb561189cdb19b81cee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3c591353956ffcace2cc74d09930774afed60619"},{"version":"e50e5129f384ae282adebfb561189cdb19b81cee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"098927a13fd918bd7c64c2de905350a1ad7b4a3a"},{"version":"e50e5129f384ae282adebfb561189cdb19b81cee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0c8fbb6ffb3c8f5164572ca88e4ccb6cd6a41ca8"},{"version":"e50e5129f384ae282adebfb561189cdb19b81cee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5701875f9609b000d91351eaa6bfd97fe2f157f4"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.13"},{"version":"5.10.248","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.198","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.161","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.120","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.59","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.14.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.14.*"},{"version":"6.15","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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