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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38066" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-06-18T09:33:44.877Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:20:36.681Z" 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-2025-38066" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38066.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38066" title: "dm cache: prevent BUG_ON by blocking retries on failed device resumes" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndm cache: prevent BUG_ON by blocking retries on failed device resumes\n\nA cache device failing to resume due to mapping errors should not be\nretried, as the failure leaves a partially initialized policy object.\nRepeating the resume operation risks triggering BUG_ON when reloading\ncache mappings into the incomplete policy object.\n\nReproduce steps:\n\n1. create a cache metadata consisting of 512 or more cache blocks,\n with some mappings stored in the first array block of the mapping\n array. Here we use cache_restore v1.0 to build the metadata.\n\ncat \u003c\u003cEOF \u003e\u003e cmeta.xml\n\u003csuperblock uuid=\"\" block_size=\"128\" nr_cache_blocks=\"512\" \\\npolicy=\"smq\" hint_width=\"4\"\u003e\n \u003cmappings\u003e\n \u003cmapping cache_block=\"0\" origin_block=\"0\" dirty=\"false\"/\u003e\n \u003c/mappings\u003e\n\u003c/superblock\u003e\nEOF\ndmsetup create cmeta --table \"0 8192 linear /dev/sdc 0\"\ncache_restore -i cmeta.xml -o /dev/mapper/cmeta --metadata-version=2\ndmsetup remove cmeta\n\n2. wipe the second array block of the mapping array to simulate\n data degradations.\n\nmapping_root=$(dd if=/dev/sdc bs=1c count=8 skip=192 \\\n2\u003e/dev/null | hexdump -e '1/8 \"%u\\n\"')\nablock=$(dd if=/dev/sdc bs=1c count=8 skip=$((4096*mapping_root+2056)) \\\n2\u003e/dev/null | hexdump -e '1/8 \"%u\\n\"')\ndd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=4k count=1 seek=$ablock\n\n3. try bringing up the cache device. The resume is expected to fail\n due to the broken array block.\n\ndmsetup create cmeta --table \"0 8192 linear /dev/sdc 0\"\ndmsetup create cdata --table \"0 65536 linear /dev/sdc 8192\"\ndmsetup create corig --table \"0 524288 linear /dev/sdc 262144\"\ndmsetup create cache --notable\ndmsetup load cache --table \"0 524288 cache /dev/mapper/cmeta \\\n/dev/mapper/cdata /dev/mapper/corig 128 2 metadata2 writethrough smq 0\"\ndmsetup resume cache\n\n4. try resuming the cache again. An unexpected BUG_ON is triggered\n while loading cache mappings.\n\ndmsetup resume cache\n\nKernel logs:\n\n(snip)\n------------[ cut here ]------------\nkernel BUG at drivers/md/dm-cache-policy-smq.c:752!\nOops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI\nCPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 332 Comm: dmsetup Not tainted 6.13.4 #3\nRIP: 0010:smq_load_mapping+0x3e5/0x570\n\nFix by disallowing resume operations for devices that failed the\ninitial attempt." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"66a636356647a9be8885c2ce2948de126577698a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c614584c2a66b538f469089ac089457a34590c14"},{"version":"66a636356647a9be8885c2ce2948de126577698a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c5356a5e80442131e2714d0d26bb110590e4e568"},{"version":"66a636356647a9be8885c2ce2948de126577698a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"025c8f477625eb39006ded650e7d027bcfb20e79"},{"version":"66a636356647a9be8885c2ce2948de126577698a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"00586b78eeb7c626a14ca13453a1631f88a7cf36"},{"version":"66a636356647a9be8885c2ce2948de126577698a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3986ef4a9b6a0d9c28bc325d8713beba5e67586f"},{"version":"66a636356647a9be8885c2ce2948de126577698a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cc80a5cc520939d0a7d071cc4ae4b3c55ef171d0"},{"version":"66a636356647a9be8885c2ce2948de126577698a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f3128e3074e8af565cc6a66fe3384a56df87f803"},{"version":"66a636356647a9be8885c2ce2948de126577698a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5da692e2262b8f81993baa9592f57d12c2703dea"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.2"},{"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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