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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38627" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-08-22T16:00:35.856Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:03:36.334Z" 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-2025-38627" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38627.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38627" title: "f2fs: compress: fix UAF of f2fs_inode_info in f2fs_free_dic" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nf2fs: compress: fix UAF of f2fs_inode_info in f2fs_free_dic\n\nThe decompress_io_ctx may be released asynchronously after\nI/O completion. If this file is deleted immediately after read,\nand the kworker of processing post_read_wq has not been executed yet\ndue to high workloads, It is possible that the inode(f2fs_inode_info)\nis evicted and freed before it is used f2fs_free_dic.\n\n The UAF case as below:\n Thread A Thread B\n - f2fs_decompress_end_io\n - f2fs_put_dic\n - queue_work\n add free_dic work to post_read_wq\n - do_unlink\n - iput\n - evict\n - call_rcu\n This file is deleted after read.\n\n Thread C kworker to process post_read_wq\n - rcu_do_batch\n - f2fs_free_inode\n - kmem_cache_free\n inode is freed by rcu\n - process_scheduled_works\n - f2fs_late_free_dic\n - f2fs_free_dic\n - f2fs_release_decomp_mem\n read (dic-\u003einode)-\u003ei_compress_algorithm\n\nThis patch store compress_algorithm and sbi in dic to avoid inode UAF.\n\nIn addition, the previous solution is deprecated in [1] may cause system hang.\n[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/c36ab955-c8db-4a8b-a9d0-f07b5f426c3f@kernel.org" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"bff139b49d9f70c1ac5384aac94554846aa834de","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"74cbeeca4f16823ba58c882e1d8b836c0e39c93d"},{"version":"bff139b49d9f70c1ac5384aac94554846aa834de","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5d604d40cd3232b09cb339941ef958e49283ed0a"},{"version":"bff139b49d9f70c1ac5384aac94554846aa834de","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cc81768212cdc509e5a986274db7bc24d18cde19"},{"version":"bff139b49d9f70c1ac5384aac94554846aa834de","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8fae5b6addd5f6895e03797b56e3c7b9f9cd15c9"},{"version":"bff139b49d9f70c1ac5384aac94554846aa834de","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"39868685c2a94a70762bc6d77dc81d781d05bff5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.0"},{"version":"6.1.175","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.118","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.78","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.16.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.16.*"},{"version":"6.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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