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  "record": {
    "id": "CVE-2025-38442",
    "sourceURL": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38442",
    "idYear": 2025,
    "status": "PUBLISHED",
    "publishedAt": "2025-07-25T15:27:26.009Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-11T21:28:05.220Z",
    "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"
    },
    "facts": {
      "title": "block: reject bs > ps block devices when THP is disabled",
      "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nblock: reject bs > ps block devices when THP is disabled\n\nIf THP is disabled and when a block device with logical block size >\npage size is present, the following null ptr deref panic happens during\nboot:\n\n[   [13.2 mK  AOSAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000K0 0 0[07]\n[   13.017749] RIP: 0010:create_empty_buffers+0x3b/0x380\n<snip>\n[   13.025448] Call Trace:\n[   13.025692]  <TASK>\n[   13.025895]  block_read_full_folio+0x610/0x780\n[   13.026379]  ? __pfx_blkdev_get_block+0x10/0x10\n[   13.027008]  ? __folio_batch_add_and_move+0x1fa/0x2b0\n[   13.027548]  ? __pfx_blkdev_read_folio+0x10/0x10\n[   13.028080]  filemap_read_folio+0x9b/0x200\n[   13.028526]  ? __pfx_filemap_read_folio+0x10/0x10\n[   13.029030]  ? __filemap_get_folio+0x43/0x620\n[   13.029497]  do_read_cache_folio+0x155/0x3b0\n[   13.029962]  ? __pfx_blkdev_read_folio+0x10/0x10\n[   13.030381]  read_part_sector+0xb7/0x2a0\n[   13.030805]  read_lba+0x174/0x2c0\n<snip>\n[   13.045348]  nvme_scan_ns+0x684/0x850 [nvme_core]\n[   13.045858]  ? __pfx_nvme_scan_ns+0x10/0x10 [nvme_core]\n[   13.046414]  ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x15/0x40\n[   13.046843]  ? __switch_to+0x523/0x10a0\n[   13.047253]  ? kvm_clock_get_cycles+0x14/0x30\n[   13.047742]  ? __pfx_nvme_scan_ns_async+0x10/0x10 [nvme_core]\n[   13.048353]  async_run_entry_fn+0x96/0x4f0\n[   13.048787]  process_one_work+0x667/0x10a0\n[   13.049219]  worker_thread+0x63c/0xf60\n\nAs large folio support depends on THP, only allow bs > ps block devices\nif THP is enabled.",
      "affected": [
        {
          "vendor": "Linux",
          "product": "Linux",
          "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
          "versions": [
            {
              "version": "47dd67532303803a87f43195e088b3b4bcf0454d",
              "status": "affected",
              "versionType": "git",
              "lessThan": "b025d81b96bfe8a62b6e3e6ac776608206ccbf6d"
            },
            {
              "version": "47dd67532303803a87f43195e088b3b4bcf0454d",
              "status": "affected",
              "versionType": "git",
              "lessThan": "4cdf1bdd45ac78a088773722f009883af30ad318"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "vendor": "Linux",
          "product": "Linux",
          "defaultStatus": "affected",
          "versions": [
            {
              "version": "6.15",
              "status": "affected"
            },
            {
              "version": "0",
              "status": "unaffected",
              "versionType": "semver",
              "lessThan": "6.15"
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            {
              "version": "6.15.7",
              "status": "unaffected",
              "versionType": "semver",
              "lessThanOrEqual": "6.15.*"
            },
            {
              "version": "6.16",
              "status": "unaffected",
              "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix",
              "lessThanOrEqual": "*"
            }
          ]
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