# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38579"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-08-19T17:03:02.308Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:03:06.641Z"
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-2025-38579"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38579.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38579"
title: "f2fs: fix KMSAN uninit-value in extent_info usage"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nf2fs: fix KMSAN uninit-value in extent_info usage\n\nKMSAN reported a use of uninitialized value in `__is_extent_mergeable()`\n and `__is_back_mergeable()` via the read extent tree path.\n\nThe root cause is that `get_read_extent_info()` only initializes three\nfields (`fofs`, `blk`, `len`) of `struct extent_info`, leaving the\nremaining fields uninitialized. This leads to undefined behavior\nwhen those fields are accessed later, especially during\nextent merging.\n\nFix it by zero-initializing the `extent_info` struct before population."
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