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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-37785" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-04-18T07:01:27.393Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:06:09.448Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z" 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-2025-37785" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-37785.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-37785" title: "ext4: fix OOB read when checking dotdot dir" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: fix OOB read when checking dotdot dir\n\nMounting a corrupted filesystem with directory which contains '.' dir\nentry with rec_len == block size results in out-of-bounds read (later\non, when the corrupted directory is removed).\n\next4_empty_dir() assumes every ext4 directory contains at least '.'\nand '..' as directory entries in the first data block. It first loads\nthe '.' dir entry, performs sanity checks by calling ext4_check_dir_entry()\nand then uses its rec_len member to compute the location of '..' dir\nentry (in ext4_next_entry). It assumes the '..' dir entry fits into the\nsame data block.\n\nIf the rec_len of '.' is precisely one block (4KB), it slips through the\nsanity checks (it is considered the last directory entry in the data\nblock) and leaves \"struct ext4_dir_entry_2 *de\" point exactly past the\nmemory slot allocated to the data block. The following call to\next4_check_dir_entry() on new value of de then dereferences this pointer\nwhich results in out-of-bounds mem access.\n\nFix this by extending __ext4_check_dir_entry() to check for '.' dir\nentries that reach the end of data block. Make sure to ignore the phony\ndir entries for checksum (by checking name_len for non-zero).\n\nNote: This is reported by KASAN as use-after-free in case another\nstructure was recently freed from the slot past the bound, but it is\nreally an OOB read.\n\nThis issue was found by syzkaller tool.\n\nCall Trace:\n[ 38.594108] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __ext4_check_dir_entry+0x67e/0x710\n[ 38.594649] Read of size 2 at addr ffff88802b41a004 by task syz-executor/5375\n[ 38.595158]\n[ 38.595288] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5375 Comm: syz-executor Not tainted 6.14.0-rc7 #1\n[ 38.595298] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\n[ 38.595304] Call Trace:\n[ 38.595308] \u003cTASK\u003e\n[ 38.595311] dump_stack_lvl+0xa7/0xd0\n[ 38.595325] print_address_description.constprop.0+0x2c/0x3f0\n[ 38.595339] ? __ext4_check_dir_entry+0x67e/0x710\n[ 38.595349] print_report+0xaa/0x250\n[ 38.595359] ? __ext4_check_dir_entry+0x67e/0x710\n[ 38.595368] ? kasan_addr_to_slab+0x9/0x90\n[ 38.595378] kasan_report+0xab/0xe0\n[ 38.595389] ? __ext4_check_dir_entry+0x67e/0x710\n[ 38.595400] __ext4_check_dir_entry+0x67e/0x710\n[ 38.595410] ext4_empty_dir+0x465/0x990\n[ 38.595421] ? __pfx_ext4_empty_dir+0x10/0x10\n[ 38.595432] ext4_rmdir.part.0+0x29a/0xd10\n[ 38.595441] ? __dquot_initialize+0x2a7/0xbf0\n[ 38.595455] ? __pfx_ext4_rmdir.part.0+0x10/0x10\n[ 38.595464] ? __pfx___dquot_initialize+0x10/0x10\n[ 38.595478] ? down_write+0xdb/0x140\n[ 38.595487] ? __pfx_down_write+0x10/0x10\n[ 38.595497] ext4_rmdir+0xee/0x140\n[ 38.595506] vfs_rmdir+0x209/0x670\n[ 38.595517] ? lookup_one_qstr_excl+0x3b/0x190\n[ 38.595529] do_rmdir+0x363/0x3c0\n[ 38.595537] ? __pfx_do_rmdir+0x10/0x10\n[ 38.595544] ? strncpy_from_user+0x1ff/0x2e0\n[ 38.595561] __x64_sys_unlinkat+0xf0/0x130\n[ 38.595570] do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x180\n[ 38.595583] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ac27a0ec112a089f1a5102bc8dffc79c8c815571","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"14da7dbecb430e35b5889da8dae7bef33173b351"},{"version":"ac27a0ec112a089f1a5102bc8dffc79c8c815571","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e47f472a664d70a3d104a6c2a035cdff55a719b4"},{"version":"ac27a0ec112a089f1a5102bc8dffc79c8c815571","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b7531a4f99c3887439d778afaf418d1a01a5f01b"},{"version":"ac27a0ec112a089f1a5102bc8dffc79c8c815571","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"89503e5eae64637d0fa2218912b54660effe7d93"},{"version":"ac27a0ec112a089f1a5102bc8dffc79c8c815571","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"52a5509ab19a5d3afe301165d9b5787bba34d842"},{"version":"ac27a0ec112a089f1a5102bc8dffc79c8c815571","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b47584c556444cf7acb66b26a62cbc348eb92b78"},{"version":"ac27a0ec112a089f1a5102bc8dffc79c8c815571","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ac28c5684c1cdab650a7e5065b19e91577d37a4b"},{"version":"ac27a0ec112a089f1a5102bc8dffc79c8c815571","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"53bc45da8d8da92ec07877f5922b130562eb4b00"},{"version":"ac27a0ec112a089f1a5102bc8dffc79c8c815571","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d5e206778e96e8667d3bde695ad372c296dc9353"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.19"},{"version":"5.4.293","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.236","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.180","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.134","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.87","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.23","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.13.*"},{"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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