CVE-2025-38697

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)

Description A flaw exists in the Linux kernel related to an upper bound check of the tree index in the dbAllocAG function within the JFS filesystem. Specifically, the code does not verify if the computed tree index is within the bounds of the stree size. This issue could occur when filesystem metadata is corrupted.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.