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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-39735" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-04-18T07:01:36.453Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:04:55.584Z" 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-2025-39735" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39735.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39735" title: "jfs: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in ea_get()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\njfs: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in ea_get()\n\nDuring the \"size_check\" label in ea_get(), the code checks if the extended\nattribute list (xattr) size matches ea_size. If not, it logs\n\"ea_get: invalid extended attribute\" and calls print_hex_dump().\n\nHere, EALIST_SIZE(ea_buf-\u003exattr) returns 4110417968, which exceeds\nINT_MAX (2,147,483,647). Then ea_size is clamped:\n\n\tint size = clamp_t(int, ea_size, 0, EALIST_SIZE(ea_buf-\u003exattr));\n\nAlthough clamp_t aims to bound ea_size between 0 and 4110417968, the upper\nlimit is treated as an int, causing an overflow above 2^31 - 1. This leads\n\"size\" to wrap around and become negative (-184549328).\n\nThe \"size\" is then passed to print_hex_dump() (called \"len\" in\nprint_hex_dump()), it is passed as type size_t (an unsigned\ntype), this is then stored inside a variable called\n\"int remaining\", which is then assigned to \"int linelen\" which\nis then passed to hex_dump_to_buffer(). In print_hex_dump()\nthe for loop, iterates through 0 to len-1, where len is\n18446744073525002176, calling hex_dump_to_buffer()\non each iteration:\n\n\tfor (i = 0; i \u003c len; i += rowsize) {\n\t\tlinelen = min(remaining, rowsize);\n\t\tremaining -= rowsize;\n\n\t\thex_dump_to_buffer(ptr + i, linelen, rowsize, groupsize,\n\t\t\t\t linebuf, sizeof(linebuf), ascii);\n\n\t\t...\n\t}\n\nThe expected stopping condition (i \u003c len) is effectively broken\nsince len is corrupted and very large. This eventually leads to\nthe \"ptr+i\" being passed to hex_dump_to_buffer() to get closer\nto the end of the actual bounds of \"ptr\", eventually an out of\nbounds access is done in hex_dump_to_buffer() in the following\nfor loop:\n\n\tfor (j = 0; j \u003c len; j++) {\n\t\t\tif (linebuflen \u003c lx + 2)\n\t\t\t\tgoto overflow2;\n\t\t\tch = ptr[j];\n\t\t...\n\t}\n\nTo fix this we should validate \"EALIST_SIZE(ea_buf-\u003exattr)\"\nbefore it is utilised." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"6e39b681d1eb16f408493bf5023788b57f68998c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3d6fd5b9c6acbc005e53d0211c7381f566babec1"},{"version":"bbf3f1fd8a0ac7df1db36a9b9e923041a14369f2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"50afcee7011155933d8d5e8832f52eeee018cfd3"},{"version":"27a93c45e16ac25a0e2b5e5668e2d1beca56a478","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"78c9cbde8880ec02d864c166bcb4fe989ce1d95f"},{"version":"9c356fc32a4480a2c0e537a05f2a8617633ddad0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"46e2c031aa59ea65128991cbca474bd5c0c2ecdb"},{"version":"9353cdf28d4c5c0ff19c5df7fbf81ea774de43a4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a8c31808925b11393a6601f534bb63bac5366bab"},{"version":"8c505ebeed8045b488b2e60b516c752b851f8437","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0beddc2a3f9b9cf7d8887973041e36c2d0fa3652"},{"version":"d9f9d96136cba8fedd647d2c024342ce090133c2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"16d3d36436492aa248b2d8045e75585ebcc2f34d"},{"version":"d9f9d96136cba8fedd647d2c024342ce090133c2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5263822558a8a7c0d0248d5679c2dcf4d5cda61f"},{"version":"d9f9d96136cba8fedd647d2c024342ce090133c2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fdf480da5837c23b146c4743c18de97202fcab37"},{"version":"4ea25fa8747fb8b1e5a11d87b852023ecf7ae420","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"676a787048aafd4d1b38a522b05a9cc77e1b0a33","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.4.287","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.4.292"},{"version":"5.10.231","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10.236"},{"version":"5.15.174","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.180"},{"version":"6.1.120","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.134"},{"version":"6.6.64","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.87"},{"version":"6.12.2","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.23"},{"version":"4.19.325","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.20"},{"version":"6.11.11","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.13"},{"version":"5.4.292","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.236","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.180","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.134","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.87","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.23","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.13.*"},{"version":"6.14.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.14.*"},{"version":"6.15","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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