CVE-2025-38059 Affecting kernel-rt-debug-kvm package, versions *
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- published26 Jun 2025
- disclosed18 Jun 2025
Introduced: 18 Jun 2025
NewCVE-2025-38059 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for Centos:7 kernel-rt-debug-kvm.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-debug-kvm package and not the kernel-rt-debug-kvm package as distributed by Centos.
See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: avoid NULL pointer dereference if no valid csum tree
[BUG] When trying read-only scrub on a btrfs with rescue=idatacsums mount option, it will crash with the following call trace:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000208 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 835 Comm: btrfs Tainted: G O 6.15.0-rc3-custom+ #236 PREEMPT(full) Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS unknown 02/02/2022 RIP: 0010:btrfs_lookup_csums_bitmap+0x49/0x480 [btrfs] Call Trace: <TASK> scrub_find_fill_first_stripe+0x35b/0x3d0 [btrfs] scrub_simple_mirror+0x175/0x290 [btrfs] scrub_stripe+0x5f7/0x6f0 [btrfs] scrub_chunk+0x9a/0x150 [btrfs] scrub_enumerate_chunks+0x333/0x660 [btrfs] btrfs_scrub_dev+0x23e/0x600 [btrfs] btrfs_ioctl+0x1dcf/0x2f80 [btrfs] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x97/0xc0 do_syscall_64+0x4f/0x120 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
[CAUSE] Mount option "rescue=idatacsums" will completely skip loading the csum tree, so that any data read will not find any data csum thus we will ignore data checksum verification.
Normally call sites utilizing csum tree will check the fs state flag NO_DATA_CSUMS bit, but unfortunately scrub does not check that bit at all.
This results in scrub to call btrfs_search_slot() on a NULL pointer and triggered above crash.
[FIX] Check both extent and csum tree root before doing any tree search.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-38059
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/50d0de59f66cbe6d597481e099bf1c70fd07e0a9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e9770de024964b1017f99ee94f71967bd6edaeb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d35bed14b0bc95c6845863a3744ecd10b888c830
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f95d186255b319c48a365d47b69bd997fecb674e