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CVE-2025-37780

HIGH · 7.1 CVSS v3.1 Published 2025-05-01
Fix available
A fix is available. Upgrade to 5.4.293 / 5.10.237 or later.
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73/100
Remediation priority · Elevated
Zero-click Patch available

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: isofs: Prevent the use of too small fid syzbot reported a slab-out-of-bounds Read in isofs_fh_to_parent. [1] The handle_bytes value passed in by the reproducing program is equal to 12. In handle_to_path(), only 12 bytes of memory are allocated for the structure file_handle->f_handle member, which causes an out-of-bounds access when accessing the member parent_block of the structure isofs_fid in isofs, because accessing parent_block requires at least 16 bytes of f_handle. Here, fh_len is used to indirectly confirm that the value of handle_bytes is greater than 3 before accessing parent_block. [1] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in isofs_fh_to_parent+0x1b8/0x210 fs/isofs/export.c:183 Read of size 4 at addr ffff0000cc030d94 by task syz-executor215/6466 CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 6466 Comm: syz-executor215 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc7-syzkaller-ga2392f333575 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2025 Call trace: show_stack+0x2c/0x3c arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:466 (C) __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0xe4/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:408 [inline] print_report+0x198/0x550 mm/kasan/report.c:521 kasan_report+0xd8/0x138 mm/kasan/report.c:634 __asan_report_load4_noabort+0x20/0x2c mm/kasan/report_generic.c:380 isofs_fh_to_parent+0x1b8/0x210 fs/isofs/export.c:183 exportfs_decode_fh_raw+0x2dc/0x608 fs/exportfs/expfs.c:523 do_handle_to_path+0xa0/0x198 fs/fhandle.c:257 handle_to_path fs/fhandle.c:385 [inline] do_handle_open+0x8cc/0xb8c fs/fhandle.c:403 __do_sys_open_by_handle_at fs/fhandle.c:443 [inline] __se_sys_open_by_handle_at fs/fhandle.c:434 [inline] __arm64_sys_open_by_handle_at+0x80/0x94 fs/fhandle.c:434 __invoke_syscall arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:35 [inline] invoke_syscall+0x98/0x2b8 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:49 el0_svc_common+0x130/0x23c arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:132 do_el0_svc+0x48/0x58 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:151 el0_svc+0x54/0x168 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:744 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0x108 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:762 el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:600 Allocated by task 6466: kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline] kasan_save_track+0x40/0x78 mm/kasan/common.c:68 kasan_save_alloc_info+0x40/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:562 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:377 [inline] __kasan_kmalloc+0xac/0xc4 mm/kasan/common.c:394 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:260 [inline] __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:4294 [inline] __kmalloc_noprof+0x32c/0x54c mm/slub.c:4306 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:905 [inline] handle_to_path fs/fhandle.c:357 [inline] do_handle_open+0x5a4/0xb8c fs/fhandle.c:403 __do_sys_open_by_handle_at fs/fhandle.c:443 [inline] __se_sys_open_by_handle_at fs/fhandle.c:434 [inline] __arm64_sys_open_by_handle_at+0x80/0x94 fs/fhandle.c:434 __invoke_syscall arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:35 [inline] invoke_syscall+0x98/0x2b8 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:49 el0_svc_common+0x130/0x23c arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:132 do_el0_svc+0x48/0x58 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:151 el0_svc+0x54/0x168 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:744 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0x108 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:762 el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:600

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

dbcve analysis
How this class of weakness works · CWE-125

The code reads past the end (or before the start) of a buffer, returning memory that was never meant to be exposed. Attackers use it to leak secrets like keys or to defeat memory-protection defences. Remediation is validating indices and lengths before every read.

General guidance for the out-of-bounds read class — the official description and references above are authoritative for this specific CVE. Want a bespoke review and a reviewed fix? Ask our team →

Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.

NVD · CPE data
Linux KernelOperating system
Affected:>= 2.6.13, < 5.4.293>= 5.5, < 5.10.237>= 5.11, < 5.15.181>= 5.16, < 6.1.135>= 6.2, < 6.6.88>= 6.7, < 6.12.25>= 6.13, < 6.14.4= 2.6.12= 6.15
Debian LinuxOperating system
Affected:= 11.0

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.

dbcve · scoped
Upgrade available Upgrade to 5.4.293 / 5.10.237 / 5.15.181 or later
Fixed in 5.4.2935.10.2375.15.181
Vendor patch git.kernel.org →
Recommended fix High confidence

Upgrade to kernel 5.4.293+, 5.10.237+, 5.15.181+, or 6.1.135+ (depending on your current release train)

  1. Identify your current kernel version using `uname -r`
  2. Determine which kernel release series you are running (e.g., 5.4.x, 5.10.x, 5.15.x, 6.1.x)
  3. Upgrade to a kernel version that includes the fix: for 5.4.x series use >= 5.4.293, for 5.10.x use >= 5.10.237, for 5.15.x use >= 5.15.181, for 6.1.x use >= 6.1.135
  4. Apply the vendor patch from commit 007124c896e7d4614ac1f6bd4dedb975c35a2a8e if upgrading the kernel is not immediately feasible
  5. Reboot into the patched kernel to apply the fix
  6. Verify the fix is applied by checking the kernel version or the presence of the patch in the source code at fs/isofs/export.c
Caveat Kernel upgrades may require rebooting the system and could introduce compatibility issues with older kernel modules or system configurations

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