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CVE-2025-38697

High 7.8

Published
Last modified
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: jfs: upper bound check of tree index in dbAllocAG When computing the tree index in dbAllocAG, we never check if we are out of bounds realative to the size of the stree. This could happen in a scenario where the filesystem metadata are corrupted.

Affected products

linux: linux kernel; debian: debian linux

References10

Metrics

CVSS 3.1
7.8 HIGH Score source: NVD CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS — exploit probability
0% percentile: 9 · as of 8 November 2026
CWE
CWE-129

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