CVE-2025-40167

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
12/11/2025
Last modified:
12/11/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> ext4: detect invalid INLINE_DATA + EXTENTS flag combination<br /> <br /> syzbot reported a BUG_ON in ext4_es_cache_extent() when opening a verity<br /> file on a corrupted ext4 filesystem mounted without a journal.<br /> <br /> The issue is that the filesystem has an inode with both the INLINE_DATA<br /> and EXTENTS flags set:<br /> <br /> EXT4-fs error (device loop0): ext4_cache_extents:545: inode #15:<br /> comm syz.0.17: corrupted extent tree: lblk 0

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