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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-40167" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-11-12T10:26:24.498Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T22:02:39.184Z" 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-2025-40167" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40167.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40167" title: "ext4: detect invalid INLINE_DATA + EXTENTS flag combination" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: detect invalid INLINE_DATA + EXTENTS flag combination\n\nsyzbot reported a BUG_ON in ext4_es_cache_extent() when opening a verity\nfile on a corrupted ext4 filesystem mounted without a journal.\n\nThe issue is that the filesystem has an inode with both the INLINE_DATA\nand EXTENTS flags set:\n\n EXT4-fs error (device loop0): ext4_cache_extents:545: inode #15:\n comm syz.0.17: corrupted extent tree: lblk 0 \u003c prev 66\n\nInvestigation revealed that the inode has both flags set:\n DEBUG: inode 15 - flag=1, i_inline_off=164, has_inline=1, extents_flag=1\n\nThis is an invalid combination since an inode should have either:\n- INLINE_DATA: data stored directly in the inode\n- EXTENTS: data stored in extent-mapped blocks\n\nHaving both flags causes ext4_has_inline_data() to return true, skipping\nextent tree validation in __ext4_iget(). The unvalidated out-of-order\nextents then trigger a BUG_ON in ext4_es_cache_extent() due to integer\nunderflow when calculating hole sizes.\n\nFix this by detecting this invalid flag combination early in ext4_iget()\nand rejecting the corrupted inode." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"f19d5870cbf72d4cb2a8e1f749dff97af99b071e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4954d297c91d292630ab43ba4d195dc371ce65d3"},{"version":"f19d5870cbf72d4cb2a8e1f749dff97af99b071e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f061f7c331fc16250fc82aa68964f35821687217"},{"version":"f19d5870cbf72d4cb2a8e1f749dff97af99b071e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2e9e10657b04152ed0d6ecae8d0c02a3405e28f5"},{"version":"f19d5870cbf72d4cb2a8e1f749dff97af99b071e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1437c95ab2a28b138d4521653583729f61ccb48b"},{"version":"f19d5870cbf72d4cb2a8e1f749dff97af99b071e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cb6039b68efa547b676a8a10fc4618d9d1865c23"},{"version":"f19d5870cbf72d4cb2a8e1f749dff97af99b071e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"de985264eef64be8a90595908f2e6a87946dad34"},{"version":"f19d5870cbf72d4cb2a8e1f749dff97af99b071e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1f5ccd22ff482639133f2a0fe08f6d19d0e68717"},{"version":"f19d5870cbf72d4cb2a8e1f749dff97af99b071e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1d3ad183943b38eec2acf72a0ae98e635dc8456b"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.8"},{"version":"5.4.301","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.246","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.196","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.114","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.55","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.17.5","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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