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  "record": {
    "id": "CVE-2025-38221",
    "sourceURL": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38221",
    "idYear": 2025,
    "status": "PUBLISHED",
    "publishedAt": "2025-07-04T13:37:37.248Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-11T21:23:34.763Z",
    "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"
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    "facts": {
      "title": "ext4: fix out of bounds punch offset",
      "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: fix out of bounds punch offset\n\nPunching a hole with a start offset that exceeds max_end is not\npermitted and will result in a negative length in the\ntruncate_inode_partial_folio() function while truncating the page cache,\npotentially leading to undesirable consequences.\n\nA simple reproducer:\n\n  truncate -s 9895604649994 /mnt/foo\n  xfs_io -c \"pwrite 8796093022208 4096\" /mnt/foo\n  xfs_io -c \"fpunch 8796093022213 25769803777\" /mnt/foo\n\n  kernel BUG at include/linux/highmem.h:275!\n  Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI\n  CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 710 Comm: xfs_io Not tainted 6.15.0-rc3\n  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-2.fc40 04/01/2014\n  RIP: 0010:zero_user_segments.constprop.0+0xd7/0x110\n  RSP: 0018:ffffc90001cf3b38 EFLAGS: 00010287\n  RAX: 0000000000000005 RBX: ffffea0001485e40 RCX: 0000000000001000\n  RDX: 000000000040b000 RSI: 0000000000000005 RDI: 000000000040b000\n  RBP: 000000000040affb R08: ffff888000000000 R09: ffffea0000000000\n  R10: 0000000000000003 R11: 00000000fffc7fc5 R12: 0000000000000005\n  R13: 000000000040affb R14: ffffea0001485e40 R15: ffff888031cd3000\n  FS:  00007f4f63d0b780(0000) GS:ffff8880d337d000(0000)\n  knlGS:0000000000000000\n  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n  CR2: 000000001ae0b038 CR3: 00000000536aa000 CR4: 00000000000006f0\n  DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\n  DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\n  Call Trace:\n   <TASK>\n   truncate_inode_partial_folio+0x3dd/0x620\n   truncate_inode_pages_range+0x226/0x720\n   ? bdev_getblk+0x52/0x3e0\n   ? ext4_get_group_desc+0x78/0x150\n   ? crc32c_arch+0xfd/0x180\n   ? __ext4_get_inode_loc+0x18c/0x840\n   ? ext4_inode_csum+0x117/0x160\n   ? jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata+0x61/0x390\n   ? __ext4_handle_dirty_metadata+0xa0/0x2b0\n   ? kmem_cache_free+0x90/0x5a0\n   ? jbd2_journal_stop+0x1d5/0x550\n   ? __ext4_journal_stop+0x49/0x100\n   truncate_pagecache_range+0x50/0x80\n   ext4_truncate_page_cache_block_range+0x57/0x3a0\n   ext4_punch_hole+0x1fe/0x670\n   ext4_fallocate+0x792/0x17d0\n   ? __count_memcg_events+0x175/0x2a0\n   vfs_fallocate+0x121/0x560\n   ksys_fallocate+0x51/0xc0\n   __x64_sys_fallocate+0x24/0x40\n   x64_sys_call+0x18d2/0x4170\n   do_syscall_64+0xa7/0x220\n   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n\nFix this by filtering out cases where the punching start offset exceeds\nmax_end.",
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          "vendor": "Linux",
          "product": "Linux",
          "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
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              "version": "33f61ecabb10098b63dad3b729552779379f900d",
              "status": "affected",
              "versionType": "git",
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              "version": "982bf37da09d078570650b691d9084f43805a5de",
              "status": "affected",
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              "lessThan": "28b62cb58fd014338f5004170f2e3a35bf0af238"
            },
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              "version": "982bf37da09d078570650b691d9084f43805a5de",
              "status": "affected",
              "versionType": "git",
              "lessThan": "b5e58bcd79625423487fa3ecba8e8411b5396327"
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        {
          "vendor": "Linux",
          "product": "Linux",
          "defaultStatus": "affected",
          "versions": [
            {
              "version": "6.15",
              "status": "affected"
            },
            {
              "version": "0",
              "status": "unaffected",
              "versionType": "semver",
              "lessThan": "6.15"
            },
            {
              "version": "6.15.4",
              "status": "unaffected",
              "versionType": "semver",
              "lessThanOrEqual": "6.15.*"
            },
            {
              "version": "6.16",
              "status": "unaffected",
              "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix",
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