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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38059"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-06-18T09:33:38.943Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:20:28.597Z"
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-2025-38059"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38059.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38059"
title: "btrfs: avoid NULL pointer dereference if no valid csum tree"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: avoid NULL pointer dereference if no valid csum tree\n\n[BUG]\nWhen trying read-only scrub on a btrfs with rescue=idatacsums mount\noption, it will crash with the following call trace:\n\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  CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 835 Comm: btrfs Tainted: G           O        6.15.0-rc3-custom+ #236 PREEMPT(full)\n  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS unknown 02/02/2022\n  RIP: 0010:btrfs_lookup_csums_bitmap+0x49/0x480 [btrfs]\n  Call Trace:\n   \u003cTASK\u003e\n   scrub_find_fill_first_stripe+0x35b/0x3d0 [btrfs]\n   scrub_simple_mirror+0x175/0x290 [btrfs]\n   scrub_stripe+0x5f7/0x6f0 [btrfs]\n   scrub_chunk+0x9a/0x150 [btrfs]\n   scrub_enumerate_chunks+0x333/0x660 [btrfs]\n   btrfs_scrub_dev+0x23e/0x600 [btrfs]\n   btrfs_ioctl+0x1dcf/0x2f80 [btrfs]\n   __x64_sys_ioctl+0x97/0xc0\n   do_syscall_64+0x4f/0x120\n   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n\n[CAUSE]\nMount option \"rescue=idatacsums\" will completely skip loading the csum\ntree, so that any data read will not find any data csum thus we will\nignore data checksum verification.\n\nNormally call sites utilizing csum tree will check the fs state flag\nNO_DATA_CSUMS bit, but unfortunately scrub does not check that bit at all.\n\nThis results in scrub to call btrfs_search_slot() on a NULL pointer\nand triggered above crash.\n\n[FIX]\nCheck both extent and csum tree root before doing any tree search."
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