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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38139" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-07-03T08:35:41.271Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:59:50.138Z" 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-2025-38139" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38139.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38139" title: "netfs: Fix oops in write-retry from mis-resetting the subreq iterator" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfs: Fix oops in write-retry from mis-resetting the subreq iterator\n\nFix the resetting of the subrequest iterator in netfs_retry_write_stream()\nto use the iterator-reset function as the iterator may have been shortened\nby a previous retry. In such a case, the amount of data to be written by\nthe subrequest is not \"subreq-\u003elen\" but \"subreq-\u003elen -\nsubreq-\u003etransferred\".\n\nWithout this, KASAN may see an error in iov_iter_revert():\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in iov_iter_revert lib/iov_iter.c:633 [inline]\n BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in iov_iter_revert+0x443/0x5a0 lib/iov_iter.c:611\n Read of size 4 at addr ffff88802912a0b8 by task kworker/u32:7/1147\n\n CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1147 Comm: kworker/u32:7 Not tainted 6.15.0-rc6-syzkaller-00052-g9f35e33144ae #0 PREEMPT(full)\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014\n Workqueue: events_unbound netfs_write_collection_worker\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]\n dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:120\n print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:408 [inline]\n print_report+0xc3/0x670 mm/kasan/report.c:521\n kasan_report+0xe0/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:634\n iov_iter_revert lib/iov_iter.c:633 [inline]\n iov_iter_revert+0x443/0x5a0 lib/iov_iter.c:611\n netfs_retry_write_stream fs/netfs/write_retry.c:44 [inline]\n netfs_retry_writes+0x166d/0x1a50 fs/netfs/write_retry.c:231\n netfs_collect_write_results fs/netfs/write_collect.c:352 [inline]\n netfs_write_collection_worker+0x23fd/0x3830 fs/netfs/write_collect.c:374\n process_one_work+0x9cf/0x1b70 kernel/workqueue.c:3238\n process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3319 [inline]\n worker_thread+0x6c8/0xf10 kernel/workqueue.c:3400\n kthread+0x3c2/0x780 kernel/kthread.c:464\n ret_from_fork+0x45/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:153\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245\n \u003c/TASK\u003e" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"cd0277ed0c188dd40e7744e89299af7b78831ca4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e0fefe9bc07e6101fdc57abda3644f296c114e31"},{"version":"cd0277ed0c188dd40e7744e89299af7b78831ca4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bd0edaf99a920b1a9decd773179caacacb61d0fd"},{"version":"cd0277ed0c188dd40e7744e89299af7b78831ca4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4481f7f2b3df123ec77e828c849138f75cff2bf2"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12"},{"version":"6.12.37","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16","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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