# 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-2025-38712"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-04T15:33:02.530Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-12T12:05:47.082Z"
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-2025-38712"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38712.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38712"
title: "hfsplus: don't use BUG_ON() in hfsplus_create_attributes_file()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nhfsplus: don't use BUG_ON() in hfsplus_create_attributes_file()\n\nWhen the volume header contains erroneous values that do not reflect\nthe actual state of the filesystem, hfsplus_fill_super() assumes that\nthe attributes file is not yet created, which later results in hitting\nBUG_ON() when hfsplus_create_attributes_file() is called. Replace this\nBUG_ON() with -EIO error with a message to suggest running fsck tool."
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