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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38034" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-06-18T09:33:21.120Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:19:59.723Z" 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-2025-38034" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38034.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38034" title: "btrfs: correct the order of prelim_ref arguments in btrfs__prelim_ref" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: correct the order of prelim_ref arguments in btrfs__prelim_ref\n\nbtrfs_prelim_ref() calls the old and new reference variables in the\nincorrect order. This causes a NULL pointer dereference because oldref\nis passed as NULL to trace_btrfs_prelim_ref_insert().\n\nNote, trace_btrfs_prelim_ref_insert() is being called with newref as\noldref (and oldref as NULL) on purpose in order to print out\nthe values of newref.\n\nTo reproduce:\necho 1 \u003e /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/btrfs/btrfs_prelim_ref_insert/enable\n\nPerform some writeback operations.\n\nBacktrace:\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000018\n #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode\n #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page\n PGD 115949067 P4D 115949067 PUD 11594a067 PMD 0\n Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI\n CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1188 Comm: fsstress Not tainted 6.15.0-rc2-tester+ #47 PREEMPT(voluntary) 7ca2cef72d5e9c600f0c7718adb6462de8149622\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.16.3-2-gc13ff2cd-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\n RIP: 0010:trace_event_raw_event_btrfs__prelim_ref+0x72/0x130\n Code: e8 43 81 9f ff 48 85 c0 74 78 4d 85 e4 0f 84 8f 00 00 00 49 8b 94 24 c0 06 00 00 48 8b 0a 48 89 48 08 48 8b 52 08 48 89 50 10 \u003c49\u003e 8b 55 18 48 89 50 18 49 8b 55 20 48 89 50 20 41 0f b6 55 28 88\n RSP: 0018:ffffce44820077a0 EFLAGS: 00010286\n RAX: ffff8c6b403f9014 RBX: ffff8c6b55825730 RCX: 304994edf9cf506b\n RDX: d8b11eb7f0fdb699 RSI: ffff8c6b403f9010 RDI: ffff8c6b403f9010\n RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000010\n R10: 00000000ffffffff R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8c6b4e8fb000\n R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffce44820077a8 R15: ffff8c6b4abd1540\n FS: 00007f4dc6813740(0000) GS:ffff8c6c1d378000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n CR2: 0000000000000018 CR3: 000000010eb42000 CR4: 0000000000750ef0\n PKRU: 55555554\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n prelim_ref_insert+0x1c1/0x270\n find_parent_nodes+0x12a6/0x1ee0\n ? __entry_text_end+0x101f06/0x101f09\n ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5\n ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5\n ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5\n ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5\n btrfs_is_data_extent_shared+0x167/0x640\n ? fiemap_process_hole+0xd0/0x2c0\n extent_fiemap+0xa5c/0xbc0\n ? __entry_text_end+0x101f05/0x101f09\n btrfs_fiemap+0x7e/0xd0\n do_vfs_ioctl+0x425/0x9d0\n __x64_sys_ioctl+0x75/0xc0" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"00142756e1f8015d2f8ce96532d156689db7e448","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5755b6731655e248c4f1d52a2e1b18795b4a2a3a"},{"version":"00142756e1f8015d2f8ce96532d156689db7e448","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a641154cedf9d69730f8af5d0a901fe86e6486bd"},{"version":"00142756e1f8015d2f8ce96532d156689db7e448","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a876703894a6dd6e8c04b0635d86e9f7a7c81b79"},{"version":"00142756e1f8015d2f8ce96532d156689db7e448","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0528bba48dce7820d2da72e1a114e1c4552367eb"},{"version":"00142756e1f8015d2f8ce96532d156689db7e448","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7a97f961a568a8f72472dc804af02a0f73152c5f"},{"version":"00142756e1f8015d2f8ce96532d156689db7e448","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7f7c8c03feba5f2454792fab3bb8bd45bd6883f9"},{"version":"00142756e1f8015d2f8ce96532d156689db7e448","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"137bfa08c6441f324d00692d1e9d22cfd773329b"},{"version":"00142756e1f8015d2f8ce96532d156689db7e448","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bc7e0975093567f51be8e1bdf4aa5900a3cf0b1e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.14"},{"version":"5.4.294","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.238","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.185","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.141","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.93","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.31","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.14.9","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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