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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38713"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-04T15:33:03.464Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:04:11.569Z"
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-2025-38713"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38713.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38713"
title: "hfsplus: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in hfsplus_uni2asc()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nhfsplus: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in hfsplus_uni2asc()\n\nThe hfsplus_readdir() method is capable to crash by calling\nhfsplus_uni2asc():\n\n[  667.121659][ T9805] ==================================================================\n[  667.122651][ T9805] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in hfsplus_uni2asc+0x902/0xa10\n[  667.123627][ T9805] Read of size 2 at addr ffff88802592f40c by task repro/9805\n[  667.124578][ T9805]\n[  667.124876][ T9805] CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 9805 Comm: repro Not tainted 6.16.0-rc3 #1 PREEMPT(full)\n[  667.124886][ T9805] Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014\n[  667.124890][ T9805] Call Trace:\n[  667.124893][ T9805]  \u003cTASK\u003e\n[  667.124896][ T9805]  dump_stack_lvl+0x10e/0x1f0\n[  667.124911][ T9805]  print_report+0xd0/0x660\n[  667.124920][ T9805]  ? __virt_addr_valid+0x81/0x610\n[  667.124928][ T9805]  ? __phys_addr+0xe8/0x180\n[  667.124934][ T9805]  ? hfsplus_uni2asc+0x902/0xa10\n[  667.124942][ T9805]  kasan_report+0xc6/0x100\n[  667.124950][ T9805]  ? hfsplus_uni2asc+0x902/0xa10\n[  667.124959][ T9805]  hfsplus_uni2asc+0x902/0xa10\n[  667.124966][ T9805]  ? hfsplus_bnode_read+0x14b/0x360\n[  667.124974][ T9805]  hfsplus_readdir+0x845/0xfc0\n[  667.124984][ T9805]  ? __pfx_hfsplus_readdir+0x10/0x10\n[  667.124994][ T9805]  ? stack_trace_save+0x8e/0xc0\n[  667.125008][ T9805]  ? iterate_dir+0x18b/0xb20\n[  667.125015][ T9805]  ? trace_lock_acquire+0x85/0xd0\n[  667.125022][ T9805]  ? lock_acquire+0x30/0x80\n[  667.125029][ T9805]  ? iterate_dir+0x18b/0xb20\n[  667.125037][ T9805]  ? down_read_killable+0x1ed/0x4c0\n[  667.125044][ T9805]  ? putname+0x154/0x1a0\n[  667.125051][ T9805]  ? __pfx_down_read_killable+0x10/0x10\n[  667.125058][ T9805]  ? apparmor_file_permission+0x239/0x3e0\n[  667.125069][ T9805]  iterate_dir+0x296/0xb20\n[  667.125076][ T9805]  __x64_sys_getdents64+0x13c/0x2c0\n[  667.125084][ T9805]  ? __pfx___x64_sys_getdents64+0x10/0x10\n[  667.125091][ T9805]  ? __x64_sys_openat+0x141/0x200\n[  667.125126][ T9805]  ? __pfx_filldir64+0x10/0x10\n[  667.125134][ T9805]  ? do_user_addr_fault+0x7fe/0x12f0\n[  667.125143][ T9805]  do_syscall_64+0xc9/0x480\n[  667.125151][ T9805]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n[  667.125158][ T9805] RIP: 0033:0x7fa8753b2fc9\n[  667.125164][ T9805] Code: 00 c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 48\n[  667.125172][ T9805] RSP: 002b:00007ffe96f8e0f8 EFLAGS: 00000217 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000d9\n[  667.125181][ T9805] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007fa8753b2fc9\n[  667.125185][ T9805] RDX: 0000000000000400 RSI: 00002000000063c0 RDI: 0000000000000004\n[  667.125190][ T9805] RBP: 00007ffe96f8e110 R08: 00007ffe96f8e110 R09: 00007ffe96f8e110\n[  667.125195][ T9805] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000217 R12: 0000556b1e3b4260\n[  667.125199][ T9805] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000\n[  667.125207][ T9805]  \u003c/TASK\u003e\n[  667.125210][ T9805]\n[  667.145632][ T9805] Allocated by task 9805:\n[  667.145991][ T9805]  kasan_save_stack+0x20/0x40\n[  667.146352][ T9805]  kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30\n[  667.146717][ T9805]  __kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0\n[  667.147065][ T9805]  __kmalloc_noprof+0x205/0x550\n[  667.147448][ T9805]  hfsplus_find_init+0x95/0x1f0\n[  667.147813][ T9805]  hfsplus_readdir+0x220/0xfc0\n[  667.148174][ T9805]  iterate_dir+0x296/0xb20\n[  667.148549][ T9805]  __x64_sys_getdents64+0x13c/0x2c0\n[  667.148937][ T9805]  do_syscall_64+0xc9/0x480\n[  667.149291][ T9805]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n[  667.149809][ T9805]\n[  667.150030][ T9805] The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88802592f000\n[  667.150030][ T9805]  which belongs to the cache kmalloc-2k of size 2048\n[  667.151282][ T9805] The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of\n[  667.151282][ T9805]  allocated 1036-byte region [ffff88802592f000, ffff88802592f40c)\n[  667.1\n---truncated---"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"73f7da507d787b489761a0fa280716f84fa32b2f"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"76a4c6636a69d69409aa253b049b1be717a539c5"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ccf0ad56a779e6704c0b27f555dec847f50c7557"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"13604b1d7e7b125fb428cddbec6b8d92baad25d5"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"291bb5d931c6f3cd7227b913302a17be21cf53b0"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f7534cbfac0a9ffa4fa17cacc6e8b6446dae24ee"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6f93694bcbc2c2ab3e01cd8fba2f296faf34e6b9"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1ca69007e52a73bd8b84b988b61b319816ca8b01"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"94458781aee6045bd3d0ad4b80b02886b9e2219b"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"version":"5.4.297","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.241","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.190","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.149","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.103","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.43","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.16.*"},{"version":"6.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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