CVE-2025-38223 - Vulnerability Details

- ceph: avoid kernel BUG for encrypted inode with unaligned file size

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ceph: avoid kernel BUG for encrypted inode with unaligned file size

The generic/397 test hits a BUG_ON for the case of encrypted inode with
unaligned file size (for example, 33K or 1K):

[ 877.737811] run fstests generic/397 at 2025-01-03 12:34:40
[ 877.875761] libceph: mon0 (2)127.0.0.1:40674 session established
[ 877.876130] libceph: client4614 fsid 19b90bca-f1ae-47a6-93dd-0b03ee637949
[ 877.991965] libceph: mon0 (2)127.0.0.1:40674 session established
[ 877.992334] libceph: client4617 fsid 19b90bca-f1ae-47a6-93dd-0b03ee637949
[ 878.017234] libceph: mon0 (2)127.0.0.1:40674 session established
[ 878.017594] libceph: client4620 fsid 19b90bca-f1ae-47a6-93dd-0b03ee637949
[ 878.031394] xfs_io (pid 18988) is setting deprecated v1 encryption policy; recommend upgrading to v2.
[ 878.054528] libceph: mon0 (2)127.0.0.1:40674 session established
[ 878.054892] libceph: client4623 fsid 19b90bca-f1ae-47a6-93dd-0b03ee637949
[ 878.070287] libceph: mon0 (2)127.0.0.1:40674 session established
[ 878.070704] libceph: client4626 fsid 19b90bca-f1ae-47a6-93dd-0b03ee637949
[ 878.264586] libceph: mon0 (2)127.0.0.1:40674 session established
[ 878.265258] libceph: client4629 fsid 19b90bca-f1ae-47a6-93dd-0b03ee637949
[ 878.374578] -----------[ cut here ]------------
[ 878.374586] kernel BUG at net/ceph/messenger.c:1070!
[ 878.375150] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
[ 878.378145] CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 4759 Comm: kworker/2:9 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc5+ #1
[ 878.378969] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[ 878.380167] Workqueue: ceph-msgr ceph_con_workfn
[ 878.381639] RIP: 0010:ceph_msg_data_cursor_init+0x42/0x50
[ 878.382152] Code: 89 17 48 8b 46 70 55 48 89 47 08 c7 47 18 00 00 00 00 48 89 e5 e8 de cc ff ff 5d 31 c0 31 d2 31 f6 31 ff c3 cc cc cc cc 0f 0b <0f> 0b 0f 0b 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90
[ 878.383928] RSP: 0018:ffffb4ffc7cbbd28 EFLAGS: 00010287
[ 878.384447] RAX: ffffffff82bb9ac0 RBX: ffff981390c2f1f8 RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 878.385129] RDX: 0000000000009000 RSI: ffff981288232b58 RDI: ffff981390c2f378
[ 878.385839] RBP: ffffb4ffc7cbbe18 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 878.386539] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff981390c2f030
[ 878.387203] R13: ffff981288232b58 R14: 0000000000000029 R15: 0000000000000001
[ 878.387877] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9814b7900000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 878.388663] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 878.389212] CR2: 00005e106a0554e0 CR3: 0000000112bf0001 CR4: 0000000000772ef0
[ 878.389921] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[ 878.390620] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[ 878.391307] PKRU: 55555554
[ 878.391567] Call Trace:
[ 878.391807] <TASK>
[ 878.392021] ? show_regs+0x71/0x90
[ 878.392391] ? die+0x38/0xa0
[ 878.392667] ? do_trap+0xdb/0x100
[ 878.392981] ? do_error_trap+0x75/0xb0
[ 878.393372] ? ceph_msg_data_cursor_init+0x42/0x50
[ 878.393842] ? exc_invalid_op+0x53/0x80
[ 878.394232] ? ceph_msg_data_cursor_init+0x42/0x50
[ 878.394694] ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1b/0x20
[ 878.395099] ? ceph_msg_data_cursor_init+0x42/0x50
[ 878.395583] ? ceph_con_v2_try_read+0xd16/0x2220
[ 878.396027] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0xe/0x40
[ 878.396428] ? raw_spin_rq_unlock+0x10/0x40
[ 878.396842] ? finish_task_switch.isra.0+0x97/0x310
[ 878.397338] ? __schedule+0x44b/0x16b0
[ 878.397738] ceph_con_workfn+0x326/0x750
[ 878.398121] process_one_work+0x188/0x3d0
[ 878.398522] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
[ 878.398929] worker_thread+0x2b5/0x3c0
[ 878.399310] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
[ 878.399727] kthread+0xe1/0x120
[ 878.400031] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[ 878.400431] ret_from_fork+0x43/0x70
[ 878.400771] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[ 878.401127] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
[ 878.401543] </TASK>
[ 878.401760] Modules l
---truncated---

Published: 2025-07-04

Score: 5.5 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Linux

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`ee4cdf7ba857a894ad1650d6ab77669cbbfa329e`	affected	< 75583606aeef357a524cf6afd07f4b653ae48964
`ee4cdf7ba857a894ad1650d6ab77669cbbfa329e`	affected	< 26725a76264b97d1ff104031b78da57f47741625
`ee4cdf7ba857a894ad1650d6ab77669cbbfa329e`	affected	< 060909278cc0a91373a20726bd3d8ce085f480a9

Linux

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`6.12`	affected	—
`0`	unaffected	< 6.12
`6.12.35`	unaffected	≤ 6.12.*
`6.15.4`	unaffected	≤ 6.15.*
`6.16`	unaffected	≤ *

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::

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Remediation

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2025-20033	In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ceph: avoid kernel BUG for encrypted inode with unaligned file size The generic/397 test hits a BUG_ON for the case of encrypted inode with unaligned file size (for example, 33K or 1K): [ 877.737811] run fstests generic/397 at 2025-01-03 12:34:40 [ 877.875761] libceph: mon0 (2)127.0.0.1:40674 session established [ 877.876130] libceph: client4614 fsid 19b90bca-f1ae-47a6-93dd-0b03ee637949 [ 877.991965] libceph: mon0 (2)127.0.0.1:40674 session established [ 877.992334] libceph: client4617 fsid 19b90bca-f1ae-47a6-93dd-0b03ee637949 [ 878.017234] libceph: mon0 (2)127.0.0.1:40674 session established [ 878.017594] libceph: client4620 fsid 19b90bca-f1ae-47a6-93dd-0b03ee637949 [ 878.031394] xfs_io (pid 18988) is setting deprecated v1 encryption policy; recommend upgrading to v2. [ 878.054528] libceph: mon0 (2)127.0.0.1:40674 session established [ 878.054892] libceph: client4623 fsid 19b90bca-f1ae-47a6-93dd-0b03ee637949 [ 878.070287] libceph: mon0 (2)127.0.0.1:40674 session established [ 878.070704] libceph: client4626 fsid 19b90bca-f1ae-47a6-93dd-0b03ee637949 [ 878.264586] libceph: mon0 (2)127.0.0.1:40674 session established [ 878.265258] libceph: client4629 fsid 19b90bca-f1ae-47a6-93dd-0b03ee637949 [ 878.374578] -----------[ cut here ]------------ [ 878.374586] kernel BUG at net/ceph/messenger.c:1070! [ 878.375150] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI [ 878.378145] CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 4759 Comm: kworker/2:9 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc5+ #1 [ 878.378969] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 [ 878.380167] Workqueue: ceph-msgr ceph_con_workfn [ 878.381639] RIP: 0010:ceph_msg_data_cursor_init+0x42/0x50 [ 878.382152] Code: 89 17 48 8b 46 70 55 48 89 47 08 c7 47 18 00 00 00 00 48 89 e5 e8 de cc ff ff 5d 31 c0 31 d2 31 f6 31 ff c3 cc cc cc cc 0f 0b <0f> 0b 0f 0b 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 [ 878.383928] RSP: 0018:ffffb4ffc7cbbd28 EFLAGS: 00010287 [ 878.384447] RAX: ffffffff82bb9ac0 RBX: ffff981390c2f1f8 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 878.385129] RDX: 0000000000009000 RSI: ffff981288232b58 RDI: ffff981390c2f378 [ 878.385839] RBP: ffffb4ffc7cbbe18 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 878.386539] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff981390c2f030 [ 878.387203] R13: ffff981288232b58 R14: 0000000000000029 R15: 0000000000000001 [ 878.387877] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9814b7900000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 878.388663] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 878.389212] CR2: 00005e106a0554e0 CR3: 0000000112bf0001 CR4: 0000000000772ef0 [ 878.389921] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 878.390620] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 878.391307] PKRU: 55555554 [ 878.391567] Call Trace: [ 878.391807] <TASK> [ 878.392021] ? show_regs+0x71/0x90 [ 878.392391] ? die+0x38/0xa0 [ 878.392667] ? do_trap+0xdb/0x100 [ 878.392981] ? do_error_trap+0x75/0xb0 [ 878.393372] ? ceph_msg_data_cursor_init+0x42/0x50 [ 878.393842] ? exc_invalid_op+0x53/0x80 [ 878.394232] ? ceph_msg_data_cursor_init+0x42/0x50 [ 878.394694] ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1b/0x20 [ 878.395099] ? ceph_msg_data_cursor_init+0x42/0x50 [ 878.395583] ? ceph_con_v2_try_read+0xd16/0x2220 [ 878.396027] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0xe/0x40 [ 878.396428] ? raw_spin_rq_unlock+0x10/0x40 [ 878.396842] ? finish_task_switch.isra.0+0x97/0x310 [ 878.397338] ? __schedule+0x44b/0x16b0 [ 878.397738] ceph_con_workfn+0x326/0x750 [ 878.398121] process_one_work+0x188/0x3d0 [ 878.398522] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10 [ 878.398929] worker_thread+0x2b5/0x3c0 [ 878.399310] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10 [ 878.399727] kthread+0xe1/0x120 [ 878.400031] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 [ 878.400431] ret_from_fork+0x43/0x70 [ 878.400771] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 [ 878.401127] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 [ 878.401543] </TASK> [ 878.401760] Modules l ---truncated---
Ubuntu USN	USN-7833-1	Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN	USN-7834-1	Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN	USN-7833-2	Linux kernel (Real-time) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN	USN-7833-3	Linux kernel (AWS) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN	USN-7833-4	Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN	USN-7856-1	Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00016.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/060909278cc0a91373a20726bd3d8ce085f480a9
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/26725a76264b97d1ff104031b78da57f47741625
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/75583606aeef357a524cf6afd07f4b653ae48964
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025070426-CVE-2025-38223-2e38@gregkh/T
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38223
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38223

History

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Linux Linux linux Kernel
Weaknesses		CWE-617
CPEs		cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
Vendors & Products		Linux Linux linux Kernel

Sat, 05 Jul 2025 00:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References		https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025070426-CVE-2025-38223-2e38@gregkh/T https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38223 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38223
Metrics	threat_severity `None`	cvssV3_1 `{'score': 5.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}` threat_severity `Moderate`

Fri, 04 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ceph: avoid kernel BUG for encrypted inode with unaligned file size The generic/397 test hits a BUG_ON for the case of encrypted inode with unaligned file size (for example, 33K or 1K): [ 877.737811] run fstests generic/397 at 2025-01-03 12:34:40 [ 877.875761] libceph: mon0 (2)127.0.0.1:40674 session established [ 877.876130] libceph: client4614 fsid 19b90bca-f1ae-47a6-93dd-0b03ee637949 [ 877.991965] libceph: mon0 (2)127.0.0.1:40674 session established [ 877.992334] libceph: client4617 fsid 19b90bca-f1ae-47a6-93dd-0b03ee637949 [ 878.017234] libceph: mon0 (2)127.0.0.1:40674 session established [ 878.017594] libceph: client4620 fsid 19b90bca-f1ae-47a6-93dd-0b03ee637949 [ 878.031394] xfs_io (pid 18988) is setting deprecated v1 encryption policy; recommend upgrading to v2. [ 878.054528] libceph: mon0 (2)127.0.0.1:40674 session established [ 878.054892] libceph: client4623 fsid 19b90bca-f1ae-47a6-93dd-0b03ee637949 [ 878.070287] libceph: mon0 (2)127.0.0.1:40674 session established [ 878.070704] libceph: client4626 fsid 19b90bca-f1ae-47a6-93dd-0b03ee637949 [ 878.264586] libceph: mon0 (2)127.0.0.1:40674 session established [ 878.265258] libceph: client4629 fsid 19b90bca-f1ae-47a6-93dd-0b03ee637949 [ 878.374578] -----------[ cut here ]------------ [ 878.374586] kernel BUG at net/ceph/messenger.c:1070! [ 878.375150] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI [ 878.378145] CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 4759 Comm: kworker/2:9 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc5+ #1 [ 878.378969] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 [ 878.380167] Workqueue: ceph-msgr ceph_con_workfn [ 878.381639] RIP: 0010:ceph_msg_data_cursor_init+0x42/0x50 [ 878.382152] Code: 89 17 48 8b 46 70 55 48 89 47 08 c7 47 18 00 00 00 00 48 89 e5 e8 de cc ff ff 5d 31 c0 31 d2 31 f6 31 ff c3 cc cc cc cc 0f 0b <0f> 0b 0f 0b 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 [ 878.383928] RSP: 0018:ffffb4ffc7cbbd28 EFLAGS: 00010287 [ 878.384447] RAX: ffffffff82bb9ac0 RBX: ffff981390c2f1f8 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 878.385129] RDX: 0000000000009000 RSI: ffff981288232b58 RDI: ffff981390c2f378 [ 878.385839] RBP: ffffb4ffc7cbbe18 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 878.386539] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff981390c2f030 [ 878.387203] R13: ffff981288232b58 R14: 0000000000000029 R15: 0000000000000001 [ 878.387877] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9814b7900000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 878.388663] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 878.389212] CR2: 00005e106a0554e0 CR3: 0000000112bf0001 CR4: 0000000000772ef0 [ 878.389921] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 878.390620] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 878.391307] PKRU: 55555554 [ 878.391567] Call Trace: [ 878.391807] <TASK> [ 878.392021] ? show_regs+0x71/0x90 [ 878.392391] ? die+0x38/0xa0 [ 878.392667] ? do_trap+0xdb/0x100 [ 878.392981] ? do_error_trap+0x75/0xb0 [ 878.393372] ? ceph_msg_data_cursor_init+0x42/0x50 [ 878.393842] ? exc_invalid_op+0x53/0x80 [ 878.394232] ? ceph_msg_data_cursor_init+0x42/0x50 [ 878.394694] ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1b/0x20 [ 878.395099] ? ceph_msg_data_cursor_init+0x42/0x50 [ 878.395583] ? ceph_con_v2_try_read+0xd16/0x2220 [ 878.396027] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0xe/0x40 [ 878.396428] ? raw_spin_rq_unlock+0x10/0x40 [ 878.396842] ? finish_task_switch.isra.0+0x97/0x310 [ 878.397338] ? __schedule+0x44b/0x16b0 [ 878.397738] ceph_con_workfn+0x326/0x750 [ 878.398121] process_one_work+0x188/0x3d0 [ 878.398522] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10 [ 878.398929] worker_thread+0x2b5/0x3c0 [ 878.399310] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10 [ 878.399727] kthread+0xe1/0x120 [ 878.400031] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 [ 878.400431] ret_from_fork+0x43/0x70 [ 878.400771] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 [ 878.401127] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 [ 878.401543] </TASK> [ 878.401760] Modules l ---truncated---
Title		ceph: avoid kernel BUG for encrypted inode with unaligned file size
References		https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/060909278cc0a91373a20726bd3d8ce085f480a9 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/26725a76264b97d1ff104031b78da57f47741625 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/75583606aeef357a524cf6afd07f4b653ae48964

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Linux Linux Kernel

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published: 2025-07-04T13:37:38.506Z

Updated: 2026-05-11T21:23:37.193Z

Reserved: 2025-04-16T04:51:23.995Z

Link: CVE-2025-38223

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2025-07-04T14:15:30.987

Modified: 2025-11-18T15:03:50.400

Link: CVE-2025-38223

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2025-07-04T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2025-38223 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-617

Tracking

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

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