CVE-2025-38709
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
loop: Avoid updating block size under exclusive owner
Syzbot came up with a reproducer where a loop device block size is changed underneath a mounted filesystem. This causes a mismatch between the block device block size and the block size stored in the superblock causing confusion in various places such as fs/buffer.c. The particular issue triggered by syzbot was a warning in __getblk_slow() due to requested buffer size not matching block device block size.
Fix the problem by getting exclusive hold of the loop device to change its block size.
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This fails if somebody (such as filesystem) has already an exclusive ownership of the block device and thus prevents modifying the loop device under some exclusive owner which doesn't expect it.
CVSS
- Versión: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Puntuación base: 5.5
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.15%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 4
- Fecha de la puntuación: 6/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Tecnologías afectadas (1)
CWE
- NVD-CWE-noinfo
Referencias
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/139a000d20f2f38ce34296feddd641d730fe1c08
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/457d2c5e112fd08dc1039b1ae39a83ec1782360d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d67b30aefeb7a949040bbb1b4e3b84c5d29a624
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e49538288e523427beedd26993d446afef1a6fb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b928438cc87c0bf7ae078e4b7b6e14261e84c5c5
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