# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38243"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-07-09T10:42:26.014Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:24:00.565Z"
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-2025-38243"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38243.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38243"
title: "btrfs: fix invalid inode pointer dereferences during log replay"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: fix invalid inode pointer dereferences during log replay\n\nIn a few places where we call read_one_inode(), if we get a NULL pointer\nwe end up jumping into an error path, or fallthrough in case of\n__add_inode_ref(), where we then do something like this:\n\n   iput(&inode-\u003evfs_inode);\n\nwhich results in an invalid inode pointer that triggers an invalid memory\naccess, resulting in a crash.\n\nFix this by making sure we don't do such dereferences."
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