Security Advisory

CVE-2025-38663

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-08-22 16:02:55
Last updated 2026-05-11 21:32:34
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nilfs2: reject invalid file types when reading inodes To prevent inodes with invalid file types from tripping through the vfs and causing malfunctions or assertion failures, add a missing sanity check when reading an inode from a block device. If the file type is not valid, treat it as a filesystem error.