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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38218"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-07-04T13:37:35.157Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:00:26.742Z"
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-2025-38218"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38218.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38218"
title: "f2fs: fix to do sanity check on sit_bitmap_size"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nf2fs: fix to do sanity check on sit_bitmap_size\n\nw/ below testcase, resize will generate a corrupted image which\ncontains inconsistent metadata, so when mounting such image, it\nwill trigger kernel panic:\n\ntouch img\ntruncate -s $((512*1024*1024*1024)) img\nmkfs.f2fs -f img $((256*1024*1024))\nresize.f2fs -s -i img -t $((1024*1024*1024))\nmount img /mnt/f2fs\n\n------------[ cut here ]------------\nkernel BUG at fs/f2fs/segment.h:863!\nOops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI\nCPU: 11 UID: 0 PID: 3922 Comm: mount Not tainted 6.15.0-rc1+ #191 PREEMPT(voluntary)\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:f2fs_ra_meta_pages+0x47c/0x490\n\nCall Trace:\n f2fs_build_segment_manager+0x11c3/0x2600\n f2fs_fill_super+0xe97/0x2840\n mount_bdev+0xf4/0x140\n legacy_get_tree+0x2b/0x50\n vfs_get_tree+0x29/0xd0\n path_mount+0x487/0xaf0\n __x64_sys_mount+0x116/0x150\n do_syscall_64+0x82/0x190\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\nRIP: 0033:0x7fdbfde1bcfe\n\nThe reaseon is:\n\nsit_i-\u003ebitmap_size is 192, so size of sit bitmap is 192*8=1536, at maximum\nthere are 1536 sit blocks, however MAIN_SEGS is 261893, so that sit_blk_cnt\nis 4762, build_sit_entries() -\u003e current_sit_addr() tries to access\nout-of-boundary in sit_bitmap at offset from [1536, 4762), once sit_bitmap\nand sit_bitmap_mirror is not the same, it will trigger f2fs_bug_on().\n\nLet's add sanity check in f2fs_sanity_check_ckpt() to avoid panic."
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