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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-40054" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-10-28T11:48:29.073Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-23T12:45:24.871Z" 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-2025-40054" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40054.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40054" title: "f2fs: fix UAF issue in f2fs_merge_page_bio()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nf2fs: fix UAF issue in f2fs_merge_page_bio()\n\nAs JY reported in bugzilla [1],\n\nUnable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000\npc : [0xffffffe51d249484] f2fs_is_cp_guaranteed+0x70/0x98\nlr : [0xffffffe51d24adbc] f2fs_merge_page_bio+0x520/0x6d4\nCPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 6790 Comm: kworker/u16:3 Tainted: P B W OE 6.12.30-android16-5-maybe-dirty-4k #1 5f7701c9cbf727d1eebe77c89bbbeb3371e895e5\nTainted: [P]=PROPRIETARY_MODULE, [B]=BAD_PAGE, [W]=WARN, [O]=OOT_MODULE, [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE\nWorkqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-254:49)\nCall trace:\n f2fs_is_cp_guaranteed+0x70/0x98\n f2fs_inplace_write_data+0x174/0x2f4\n f2fs_do_write_data_page+0x214/0x81c\n f2fs_write_single_data_page+0x28c/0x764\n f2fs_write_data_pages+0x78c/0xce4\n do_writepages+0xe8/0x2fc\n __writeback_single_inode+0x4c/0x4b4\n writeback_sb_inodes+0x314/0x540\n __writeback_inodes_wb+0xa4/0xf4\n wb_writeback+0x160/0x448\n wb_workfn+0x2f0/0x5dc\n process_scheduled_works+0x1c8/0x458\n worker_thread+0x334/0x3f0\n kthread+0x118/0x1ac\n ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20\n\n[1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220575\n\nThe panic was caused by UAF issue w/ below race condition:\n\nkworker\n- writepages\n - f2fs_write_cache_pages\n - f2fs_write_single_data_page\n - f2fs_do_write_data_page\n - f2fs_inplace_write_data\n - f2fs_merge_page_bio\n - add_inu_page\n : cache page #1 into bio & cache bio in\n io-\u003ebio_list\n - f2fs_write_single_data_page\n - f2fs_do_write_data_page\n - f2fs_inplace_write_data\n - f2fs_merge_page_bio\n - add_inu_page\n : cache page #2 into bio which is linked\n in io-\u003ebio_list\n\t\t\t\t\t\twrite\n\t\t\t\t\t\t- f2fs_write_begin\n\t\t\t\t\t\t: write page #1\n\t\t\t\t\t\t - f2fs_folio_wait_writeback\n\t\t\t\t\t\t - f2fs_submit_merged_ipu_write\n\t\t\t\t\t\t - f2fs_submit_write_bio\n\t\t\t\t\t\t : submit bio which inclues page #1 and #2\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsoftware IRQ\n\t\t\t\t\t\t- f2fs_write_end_io\n\t\t\t\t\t\t - fscrypt_free_bounce_page\n\t\t\t\t\t\t : freed bounced page which belongs to page #2\n - inc_page_count( , WB_DATA_TYPE(data_folio), false)\n : data_folio points to fio-\u003eencrypted_page\n the bounced page can be freed before\n accessing it in f2fs_is_cp_guarantee()\n\nIt can reproduce w/ below testcase:\nRun below script in shell #1:\nfor ((i=1;i\u003e0;i++)) do xfs_io -f /mnt/f2fs/enc/file \\\n-c \"pwrite 0 32k\" -c \"fdatasync\"\n\nRun below script in shell #2:\nfor ((i=1;i\u003e0;i++)) do xfs_io -f /mnt/f2fs/enc/file \\\n-c \"pwrite 0 32k\" -c \"fdatasync\"\n\nSo, in f2fs_merge_page_bio(), let's avoid using fio-\u003eencrypted_page after\ncommit page into internal ipu cache." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0b20fcec8651569935a10afe03fedc0b812d044e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1f7b44b4a2b2939f08b279cbb9e6b5dcb8ffea32"},{"version":"0b20fcec8651569935a10afe03fedc0b812d044e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e193d8953647c8b575830852aa5ea0995b98d2b1"},{"version":"0b20fcec8651569935a10afe03fedc0b812d044e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"410337c2301ae78a081e1b5ebbe8ec374fef4cb6"},{"version":"0b20fcec8651569935a10afe03fedc0b812d044e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"68e094232dfe5027c4fd2dcded93d2d6800bae04"},{"version":"0b20fcec8651569935a10afe03fedc0b812d044e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7dd611131d82d7fc4212b555eb1103160bdad302"},{"version":"0b20fcec8651569935a10afe03fedc0b812d044e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"01118321e0c8a5f3ece57d0d377bfc92d83cd210"},{"version":"0b20fcec8651569935a10afe03fedc0b812d044e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"edf7e9040fc52c922db947f9c6c36f07377c52ea"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"},{"version":"5.10.266","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.217","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.184","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.153","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.105","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.17.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.17.*"},{"version":"6.18","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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