# 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-2025-38701"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-04T15:32:53.071Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:07:39.600Z"
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-2025-38701"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38701.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38701"
title: "ext4: do not BUG when INLINE_DATA_FL lacks system.data xattr"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: do not BUG when INLINE_DATA_FL lacks system.data xattr\n\nA syzbot fuzzed image triggered a BUG_ON in ext4_update_inline_data()\nwhen an inode had the INLINE_DATA_FL flag set but was missing the\nsystem.data extended attribute.\n\nSince this can happen due to a maiciouly fuzzed file system, we\nshouldn't BUG, but rather, report it as a corrupted file system.\n\nAdd similar replacements of BUG_ON with EXT4_ERROR_INODE() ii\next4_create_inline_data() and ext4_inline_data_truncate()."
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