UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38222: Medium severity ubuntu/linux vulnerability

Q: Which systems are exposed to this issue?

Systems using an affected Ubuntu Linux kernel and an ext4 filesystem with the inline_data feature enabled are exposed. The listed kernel packages include the standard, AWS, Azure, GCP, and FIPS variants.

Q: What level of access is needed to trigger the failure?

The supplied severity vector indicates local access with low privileges and no user interaction. The demonstrated trigger creates and writes to a file on the affected ext4 filesystem, including a write at a very large file offset.

Q: What is the practical impact of successful exploitation?

The failure reaches a kernel BUG in ext4 inline-data handling and produces an invalid-opcode Oops. The severity vector indicates a high availability impact, while confidentiality and integrity impacts are listed as none.

Q: How can administrators recognize that this has occurred?

The provided failure output shows a kernel BUG at fs/ext4/inline.c:240 followed by an "Oops: invalid opcode" message. Logs containing this pattern during writes to an ext4 filesystem using inline data are an indicator of the issue being triggered.

Published Jul 4, 2025

Updated

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: inline: fix len overflow in ext4prepareinlinedata When running the following code on an ext4 filesystem with inlinedata feature enabled, it will lead to the bug below. fd = open("file1", ORDWR | OCREAT | OTRUNC, 0666); ftruncate(fd, 30); pwrite(fd, "a", 1, (1UL << 40) + 5UL); That happens because writebegin will succeed as when ext4genericwriteinlinedata calls ext4prepareinlinedata, pos + len will be truncated, leading to ext4prepareinlinedata parameter to be 6 instead of 0x10000000006. Then, later when writeend is called, we hit: BUGON(pos + len > EXT4I(inode)->iinlinesize); at ext4writeinlinedata. Fix it by using a lofft type for the len parameter in ext4prepareinlinedata instead of an unsigned int. [ 44.545164] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 44.545530] kernel BUG at fs/ext4/inline.c:240! [ 44.545834] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI [ 44.546172] CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 343 Comm: test Not tainted 6.15.0-rc2-00003-g9080916f4863 #45 PREEMPT(full) 112853fcebfdb93254270a7959841d2c6aa2c8bb [ 44.546523] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014 [ 44.546523] RIP: 0010:ext4writeinlinedata+0xfe/0x100 [ 44.546523] Code: 3c 0e 48 83 c7 48 48 89 de 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d e9 e4 fa 43 01 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc cc cc cc cc 0f 0b <0f> 0b 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 41 57 41 56 41 55 41 54 53 48 83 ec 20 49 [ 44.546523] RSP: 0018:ffffb342008b79a8 EFLAGS: 00010216 [ 44.546523] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff9329c579c000 RCX: 0000010000000006 [ 44.546523] RDX: 000000000000003c RSI: ffffb342008b79f0 RDI: ffff9329c158e738 [ 44.546523] RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 44.546523] R10: 00007ffffffff000 R11: ffffffff9bd0d910 R12: 0000006210000000 [ 44.546523] R13: fffffc7e4015e700 R14: 0000010000000005 R15: ffff9329c158e738 [ 44.546523] FS: 00007f4299934740(0000) GS:ffff932a60179000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 44.546523] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 44.546523] CR2: 00007f4299a1ec90 CR3: 0000000002886002 CR4: 0000000000770eb0 [ 44.546523] PKRU: 55555554 [ 44.546523] Call Trace: [ 44.546523] <TASK> [ 44.546523] ext4writeinlinedataend+0x126/0x2d0 [ 44.546523] genericperformwrite+0x17e/0x270 [ 44.546523] ext4bufferedwriteiter+0xc8/0x170 [ 44.546523] vfswrite+0x2be/0x3e0 [ 44.546523] x64syspwrite64+0x6d/0xc0 [ 44.546523] dosyscall64+0x6a/0xf0 [ 44.546523] ? wakeup+0x89/0xb0 [ 44.546523] ? xasfind+0x72/0x1c0 [ 44.546523] ? nextuptodatefolio+0x317/0x330 [ 44.546523] ? setpterange+0x1a6/0x270 [ 44.546523] ? filemapmappages+0x6ee/0x840 [ 44.546523] ? ext4setattr+0x2fa/0x750 [ 44.546523] ? doptemissing+0x128/0xf70 [ 44.546523] ? securityinodepostsetattr+0x3e/0xd0 [ 44.546523] ? pteoffsetmap+0x19/0x100 [ 44.546523] ? handlemmfault+0x721/0xa10 [ 44.546523] ? douseraddrfault+0x197/0x730 [ 44.546523] ? dosyscall64+0x76/0xf0 [ 44.546523] ? archexittousermodeprepare+0x1e/0x60 [ 44.546523] ? irqentryexittousermode+0x79/0x90 [ 44.546523] entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x55/0x5d [ 44.546523] RIP: 0033:0x7f42999c6687 [ 44.546523] Code: 48 89 fa 4c 89 df e8 58 b3 00 00 8b 93 08 03 00 00 59 5e 48 83 f8 fc 74 1a 5b c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 8b 44 24 10 0f 05 <5b> c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 83 e2 39 83 fa 08 75 de e8 23 ff ff ff [ 44.546523] RSP: 002b:00007ffeae4a7930 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIGRAX: 0000000000000012 [ 44.546523] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f4299934740 RCX: 00007f42999c6687 [ 44.546523] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 000055ea6149200f RDI: 0000000000000003 [ 44.546523] RBP: 00007ffeae4a79a0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 44.546523] R10: 0000010000000005 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000 ---truncated---

Affected Software

224 affected componentsFixes available

ubuntu/linux*

ubuntu/linux-aws*

ubuntu/linux-azure*

ubuntu/linux-lts-xenial*

ubuntu/linux*

ubuntu/linux-aws*

ubuntu/linux-aws-hwe*

ubuntu/linux-azure*

ubuntu/linux-gcp*

ubuntu/linux-hwe*

ubuntu/linux-hwe-edge*

ubuntu/linux-kvm*

ubuntu/linux-oracle*

ubuntu/linux-fips*

ubuntu/linux*

ubuntu/linux-aws*

ubuntu/linux-aws-5.0*

ubuntu/linux-aws-5.3*

ubuntu/linux-aws-5.4*

ubuntu/linux-azure*

ubuntu/linux-azure-4.15*

ubuntu/linux-azure-5.3*

ubuntu/linux-azure-5.4*

ubuntu/linux-azure-edge*

ubuntu/linux-gcp*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-4.15*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-5.3*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-5.4*

ubuntu/linux-gke-4.15*

ubuntu/linux-gke-5.4*

ubuntu/linux-gkeop-5.4*

ubuntu/linux-hwe*

ubuntu/linux-hwe-5.4*

ubuntu/linux-hwe-edge*

ubuntu/linux-ibm-5.4*

ubuntu/linux-kvm*

ubuntu/linux-oem*

ubuntu/linux-oracle*

ubuntu/linux-oracle-5.0*

ubuntu/linux-oracle-5.3*

ubuntu/linux-oracle-5.4*

ubuntu/linux-raspi-5.4*

ubuntu/linux-aws-fips*

ubuntu/linux-azure-fips*

ubuntu/linux-fips*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-fips*

ubuntu/linux-aws-fips*

ubuntu/linux-azure-fips*

ubuntu/linux-fips*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-fips*

ubuntu/linux*

ubuntu/linux-aws*

ubuntu/linux-aws-5.11*

ubuntu/linux-aws-5.13*

ubuntu/linux-aws-5.15<5.15.0-1092.99~20.04.1

5.15.0-1092.99~20.04.1

ubuntu/linux-aws-5.8*

ubuntu/linux-azure*

ubuntu/linux-azure-5.11*

ubuntu/linux-azure-5.13*

ubuntu/linux-azure-5.15<5.15.0-1096.105~20.04.1

5.15.0-1096.105~20.04.1

ubuntu/linux-azure-5.8*

ubuntu/linux-azure-fde*

ubuntu/linux-bluefield*

ubuntu/linux-gcp*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-5.11*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-5.13*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-5.15<5.15.0-1092.101~20.04.1

5.15.0-1092.101~20.04.1

ubuntu/linux-gcp-5.8*

ubuntu/linux-gke*

ubuntu/linux-gke-5.15*

ubuntu/linux-gkeop*

ubuntu/linux-gkeop-5.15*

ubuntu/linux-hwe-5.11*

ubuntu/linux-hwe-5.13*

ubuntu/linux-hwe-5.15<5.15.0-156.166~20.04.1

5.15.0-156.166~20.04.1

ubuntu/linux-hwe-5.8*

ubuntu/linux-ibm*

ubuntu/linux-ibm-5.15<5.15.0-1086.89~20.04.1

5.15.0-1086.89~20.04.1

ubuntu/linux-intel-5.13*

ubuntu/linux-intel-iotg-5.15<5.15.0-1087.93~20.04.1

5.15.0-1087.93~20.04.1

ubuntu/linux-iot*

ubuntu/linux-kvm*

ubuntu/linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15<5.15.0-156.166~20.04.1

5.15.0-156.166~20.04.1

ubuntu/linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15<5.15.0-1045.45~20.04.1

5.15.0-1045.45~20.04.1

ubuntu/linux-oem-5.10*

ubuntu/linux-oem-5.13*

ubuntu/linux-oem-5.6*

ubuntu/linux-oracle*

ubuntu/linux-oracle-5.11*

ubuntu/linux-oracle-5.13*

ubuntu/linux-oracle-5.15<5.15.0-1090.96~20.04.1

5.15.0-1090.96~20.04.1

ubuntu/linux-oracle-5.8*

ubuntu/linux-raspi*

ubuntu/linux-raspi2*

ubuntu/linux-riscv*

ubuntu/linux-riscv-5.11*

ubuntu/linux-riscv-5.15<5.15.0-1087.91~20.04.1

5.15.0-1087.91~20.04.1

ubuntu/linux-riscv-5.8*

ubuntu/linux-xilinx-zynqmp*

ubuntu/linux-aws-fips*

ubuntu/linux-azure-fips*

ubuntu/linux-fips*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-fips*

ubuntu/linux-aws-fips*

ubuntu/linux-azure-fips*

ubuntu/linux-fips*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-fips*

ubuntu/linux<5.15.0-156.166

5.15.0-156.166

ubuntu/linux-allwinner-5.19*

ubuntu/linux-aws<5.15.0-1092.99

5.15.0-1092.99

ubuntu/linux-aws-5.19*

ubuntu/linux-aws-6.2*

ubuntu/linux-aws-6.5*

ubuntu/linux-aws-6.8<6.8.0-1046.49~22.04.1

6.8.0-1046.49~22.04.1

ubuntu/linux-azure<5.15.0-1096.105

5.15.0-1096.105

ubuntu/linux-azure-5.19*

ubuntu/linux-azure-6.2*

ubuntu/linux-azure-6.5*

ubuntu/linux-azure-6.8<6.8.0-1051.57~22.04.1

6.8.0-1051.57~22.04.1

ubuntu/linux-azure-fde<5.15.0-1096.105.1

5.15.0-1096.105.1

ubuntu/linux-azure-fde-5.19*

ubuntu/linux-azure-fde-6.2*

ubuntu/linux-azure-fde-6.8<6.8.0-1046.53~22.04.1

6.8.0-1046.53~22.04.1

ubuntu/linux-gcp<5.15.0-1092.101

5.15.0-1092.101

ubuntu/linux-gcp-5.19*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-6.2*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-6.5*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-6.8<6.8.0-1047.50~22.04.2

6.8.0-1047.50~22.04.2

ubuntu/linux-gke<5.15.0-1089.95

5.15.0-1089.95

ubuntu/linux-gkeop<5.15.0-1075.83

5.15.0-1075.83

ubuntu/linux-hwe-5.19*

ubuntu/linux-hwe-6.2*

ubuntu/linux-hwe-6.5*

ubuntu/linux-hwe-6.8<6.8.0-100.100~22.04.1

6.8.0-100.100~22.04.1

ubuntu/linux-ibm<5.15.0-1086.89

5.15.0-1086.89

ubuntu/linux-ibm-6.8<6.8.0-1044.44~22.04.1

6.8.0-1044.44~22.04.1

ubuntu/linux-intel-iot-realtime*

ubuntu/linux-intel-iotg<5.15.0-1087.93

5.15.0-1087.93

ubuntu/linux-kvm<5.15.0-1088.93

5.15.0-1088.93

ubuntu/linux-lowlatency<5.15.0-156.166

5.15.0-156.166

ubuntu/linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19*

ubuntu/linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2*

ubuntu/linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5*

ubuntu/linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8<6.8.0-100.100.1~22.04.1

6.8.0-100.100.1~22.04.1

ubuntu/linux-nvidia<5.15.0-1087.88

5.15.0-1087.88

ubuntu/linux-nvidia-6.2*

ubuntu/linux-nvidia-6.5*

ubuntu/linux-nvidia-6.8<6.8.0-1046.49~22.04.1

6.8.0-1046.49~22.04.1

ubuntu/linux-nvidia-tegra<5.15.0-1045.45

5.15.0-1045.45

ubuntu/linux-nvidia-tegra-igx<5.15.0-1034.34

5.15.0-1034.34

ubuntu/linux-oem-5.17*

ubuntu/linux-oem-6.0*

ubuntu/linux-oem-6.1*

ubuntu/linux-oem-6.5*

ubuntu/linux-oracle<5.15.0-1090.96

5.15.0-1090.96

ubuntu/linux-oracle-6.5*

ubuntu/linux-oracle-6.8<6.8.0-1043.44~22.04.1

6.8.0-1043.44~22.04.1

ubuntu/linux-raspi<5.15.0-1086.89

5.15.0-1086.89

ubuntu/linux-realtime*

ubuntu/linux-riscv*

ubuntu/linux-riscv-5.19*

ubuntu/linux-riscv-6.5*

ubuntu/linux-riscv-6.8<6.8.0-100.100~22.04.1

6.8.0-100.100~22.04.1

ubuntu/linux-starfive-5.19*

ubuntu/linux-starfive-6.2*

ubuntu/linux-starfive-6.5*

ubuntu/linux-xilinx-zynqmp<5.15.0-1056.60

5.15.0-1056.60

ubuntu/linux-bluefield<5.15.0-1076.78

5.15.0-1076.78

ubuntu/linux-intel-iot-realtime<5.15.0-1085.87

5.15.0-1085.87

ubuntu/linux-realtime<5.15.0-1092.101

5.15.0-1092.101

ubuntu/linux-realtime-6.8<6.8.1-1041.42~22.04.1

6.8.1-1041.42~22.04.1

ubuntu/linux-aws-fips*

ubuntu/linux-azure-fips*

ubuntu/linux-fips*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-fips*

ubuntu/linux-aws-fips<5.15.0-1092.99+fips1

5.15.0-1092.99+fips1

ubuntu/linux-azure-fips<5.15.0-1096.105+fips1

5.15.0-1096.105+fips1

ubuntu/linux-fips<5.15.0-156.166+fips1

5.15.0-156.166+fips1

ubuntu/linux-gcp-fips<5.15.0-1092.101+fips1

5.15.0-1092.101+fips1

ubuntu/linux<6.8.0-100.100

6.8.0-100.100

ubuntu/linux-aws<6.8.0-1046.49

6.8.0-1046.49

ubuntu/linux-aws-6.14<6.14.0-1015.15~24.04.1

6.14.0-1015.15~24.04.1

ubuntu/linux-azure<6.8.0-1046.52

6.8.0-1046.52

ubuntu/linux-azure-6.11*

ubuntu/linux-azure-6.14<6.14.0-1014.14~24.04.1

6.14.0-1014.14~24.04.1

ubuntu/linux-azure-fde<6.8.0-1046.53

6.8.0-1046.53

ubuntu/linux-azure-nvidia<6.8.0-1039.42

6.8.0-1039.42

ubuntu/linux-azure-nvidia-6.14<6.14.0-1007.7

6.14.0-1007.7

ubuntu/linux-gcp<6.8.0-1047.50

6.8.0-1047.50

ubuntu/linux-gcp-6.11*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-6.14<6.14.0-1018.19~24.04.1

6.14.0-1018.19~24.04.1

ubuntu/linux-gke<6.8.0-1043.48

6.8.0-1043.48

ubuntu/linux-gkeop<6.8.0-1030.33

6.8.0-1030.33

ubuntu/linux-hwe-6.11*

ubuntu/linux-ibm<6.8.0-1044.44

6.8.0-1044.44

ubuntu/linux-intel*

ubuntu/linux-lowlatency<6.8.0-100.100.1

6.8.0-100.100.1

ubuntu/linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11*

ubuntu/linux-nvidia<6.8.0-1046.49

6.8.0-1046.49

ubuntu/linux-nvidia-6.11*

ubuntu/linux-nvidia-lowlatency<6.8.0-1046.49.1

6.8.0-1046.49.1

ubuntu/linux-nvidia-tegra<6.8.0-1020.20

6.8.0-1020.20

ubuntu/linux-oem-6.11*

ubuntu/linux-oem-6.14<6.14.0-1014.14

6.14.0-1014.14

ubuntu/linux-oem-6.8*

ubuntu/linux-oracle<6.8.0-1043.44

6.8.0-1043.44

ubuntu/linux-oracle-6.14<6.14.0-1015.15~24.04.1

6.14.0-1015.15~24.04.1

ubuntu/linux-raspi<6.8.0-1047.51

6.8.0-1047.51

ubuntu/linux-raspi-realtime*

ubuntu/linux-realtime*

ubuntu/linux-riscv*

ubuntu/linux-riscv-6.14<6.14.0-34.34.1~24.04.1

6.14.0-34.34.1~24.04.1

ubuntu/linux-xilinx<6.8.0-1023.24

6.8.0-1023.24

ubuntu/linux-bluefield<6.8.0-1016.20

6.8.0-1016.20

ubuntu/linux-raspi-realtime<6.8.0-2037.38

6.8.0-2037.38

ubuntu/linux-realtime<6.8.1-1041.42

6.8.1-1041.42

ubuntu/linux-realtime-6.14<6.14.0-1014.14~24.04.1

6.14.0-1014.14~24.04.1

ubuntu/linux-aws-fips<6.8.0-1046.49+fips1

6.8.0-1046.49+fips1

ubuntu/linux-azure-fips<6.8.0-1046.52+fips1

6.8.0-1046.52+fips1

ubuntu/linux-fips<6.8.0-100.100+fips1

6.8.0-100.100+fips1

ubuntu/linux-gcp-fips<6.8.0-1047.50+fips1

6.8.0-1047.50+fips1

ubuntu/linux-azure-fde*

ubuntu/linux-vmware*

Remediation

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Compensating control
Change the ext4_prepare_inline_data len parameter type from unsigned int to loff_t to prevent truncation and len overflow.

Event History

Jul 4, 2025

CVE Published

via OSV·02:15 PM

Data Sourced

via OSV·02:15 PM

DescriptionSeverityAffected Software

Frequently Asked Questions

Which systems are exposed to this issue?

Systems using an affected Ubuntu Linux kernel and an ext4 filesystem with the inline_data feature enabled are exposed. The listed kernel packages include the standard, AWS, Azure, GCP, and FIPS variants.

What level of access is needed to trigger the failure?

The supplied severity vector indicates local access with low privileges and no user interaction. The demonstrated trigger creates and writes to a file on the affected ext4 filesystem, including a write at a very large file offset.

What is the practical impact of successful exploitation?

The failure reaches a kernel BUG in ext4 inline-data handling and produces an invalid-opcode Oops. The severity vector indicates a high availability impact, while confidentiality and integrity impacts are listed as none.

How can administrators recognize that this has occurred?

The provided failure output shows a kernel BUG at fs/ext4/inline.c:240 followed by an "Oops: invalid opcode" message. Logs containing this pattern during writes to an ext4 filesystem using inline data are an indicator of the issue being triggered.

UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38222: Medium severity ubuntu/linux vulnerability

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What is the practical impact of successful exploitation?

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