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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Jul 10, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2025-38269

CVE-2025-38269

Description

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

btrfs: exit after state insertion failure at btrfs_convert_extent_bit()

If insert_state() state failed it returns an error pointer and we call extent_io_tree_panic() which will trigger a BUG() call. However if CONFIG_BUG is disabled, which is an uncommon and exotic scenario, then we fallthrough and call cache_state() which will dereference the error pointer, resulting in an invalid memory access.

So jump to the 'out' label after calling extent_io_tree_panic(), it also makes the code more clear besides dealing with the exotic scenario where CONFIG_BUG is disabled.

Affected products

4
  • Linux/Kernelcpe-rescue3 versions
    6.7+ 2 more
    • (no CPE)range: 6.7
    • (no CPE)
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <6.12.34
  • osv-coords
    Range: >= 6.7.0, < 6.12.34

Patches

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